(CNN) — A former federal immigration prosecutor and whistleblower who has taken issue with Trump administration leadership has now gone to Capitol Hill, saying the internal watchdog offices of the Justice Department are doing nothing to investigate his and other complaints.
Lawyers for Erez Reuveni, who was fired last year after opposing his superiors’ legal approach to deportations, say the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General hasn’t investigated “any of the serious allegations of misconduct made over the past 15 months,” including complaints made by members of Congress, according to a letter sent Monday to House and Senate Judiciary committee leaders and obtained by CNN.
The entire system of accountability that Congress had set up for the Justice Department is now dead, Reuveni’s attorneys say.
“The epidemic of alleged misconduct has been met with a shrug by the agency whose job it is to address such allegations,” the letter states. “The inaction of the OIG comes at a time when the amount of governmental misconduct and violation of court orders by DOJ lawyers around the country have reached epic and unprecedented proportions.”
It adds: “The collapse of DOJ’s accountability mechanisms, and the widespread evidence of an epidemic of misconduct within the DOJ, call for your immediate attention and rigorous oversight.”
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