WASHINGTON, JULY 31, 2025 – The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General has slowed, or outright stopped, its investigations into critical whistleblower submissions according to a new report in The New York Times today. This includes the disclosure submitted by a Whistleblower Aid client raising the alarm on misconduct by Emil Bove and other senior DOJ officials, which went uninvestigated for nearly three months. Then, on July 28th, the eve of Bove’s confirmation to a lifetime seat on the federal bench, the DOJ Office of Inspector General told Whistleblower Aid that the file was located. Three days prior, on July 25th, a Senate office was told by the DOJ Office of the Inspector General that the OIG had no such submission – only to “find” it when presented with proof of delivery.

Liu issued the following statement today:

“We need to know how this happened. The DOJ Office of Inspector General’s inaction on whistleblower submissions is now more than a series of bureaucratic slip-ups, it is a systematic failure.

It is shocking that an office with such a critical mandate did not even look at whistleblower evidence by a former DOJ attorney while the subject of the disclosure, Emil Bove, was confirmed to a lifetime federal appointment amid controversy. If the Inspector General couldn’t investigate a disclosure this important, what else has been languishing behind closed doors in that office?

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