The prosecutor of the Ministry of Justice has accumulated the “continuous corruption” agency

Washington (AP) – The recently dismissed forgiveness lawyer of the Ministry of Justice accused the management of the “Corruption in progress” law enforcement agency, testifying Monday during a hearing of the congress intended to present concerns that the Trump administration attacked the rule of law, abusing its power and out of the career.

“This should alarm all the Americans that the Directorate of the Ministry of Justice seems to enhance political loyalty above the fair and court-responsible administration,” said Liz Oyer, who said that she was dismissed last month after refusing to recommend the rights to fire features actor Mel GibsonA supporter of the president Donald Trumpbe restored.

“This should offend all the Americans that our leaders treat civil servants with a lack of decency and basic humanity,” she added.

The hearing was the first time in the new Trump administration that lawyers of the Ministry of Justice who were recently dismissed or who left spoke before the Congress of the circumstances of their departures and their concerns concerning the management of the agency. It took place as a wave of resignations and layoffs dug the ranks of career lawyers experienced in the department and as Attorney General Pam Bondi And his team of the management team reported little patience for dissent within the market El Salvador prison was a mistake.

“The Trump administration has launched a total assault against these officials, who are now faced with attacks on their jobs, integrity, well-being and even security,” said Stacey Young, a lawyer who left justice legislators in January and now leads a group who advises employees in the department.

Warnings have been austere, lawyers who spent years at the Ministry of Justice telling their experiences with unprecedented political pressures which, according to them, deeply uncomfortable and erased the standards of the institution.

Oyer denounced what she described as the “insensitive cruelty to which the leadership of the MJ dealing with dedicated civil servants”. She testified to having been abruptly dismissed without explanation last month, one day after refusing to approve the restoration of Gibson’s firearms following a conviction for the offense of domestic violence, and she was told that the security agents were waiting in her office to escort him out of the building.

She said that the leaders of the Ministry of Justice also recently attempted as Friday evening to intimidate him in silence by sending assistant marshals to her house to give him a letter warning her against testimony, although she was able to warn the arrival of the police at her home.

“The letter was a warning for the risks of testifying here today. But I am here because I will not be intimidated to the concealment of corruption and the abuse of current power at the Ministry of Justice,” said Oyer.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice did not immediately respond to a message asking for comments on Oyer’s testimony. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche previously rejected the declarations of oyer as inaccurate, without elaborating. The ministry tried to invoke the executive privilege to prevent Oyer from speaking to the Congress of the circumstances of his departure. THE The legal principle largely refers to the power of a president To keep information from the courts, the congress and the public to protect the confidentiality of the presidential decision -making. His lawyer, Michael Bromwich, said that the argument that his testimony was prohibited by the executive privilege was “completely baseless”.

Another witness was a former public corruption prosecutor who resigned under protest In the midst of rejection by the Ministry of Justice of his case against the mayor of New York, Eric Adams,. Ryan Crosswell, who was not involved in the Adams case, described the events surrounding the decision to reject the Adams case – so that the Democrat can help the repression of Trump’s immigration – as “among the saddest in the history of the department”.

“In a properly functional judicial system, any civil servant who wishes to avoid prison must live according to a general rule: obey the laws of our nation,” said Crosswell. “And this action has raised an even more frightening question: the Ministry of Justice which will abandon the accusations against those who agree to a political command a ministry of justice which will bring accusations against those who do not?”

He recalled how a senior official of the Ministry of Justice ordered the Crosswell section to identify two prosecutors willing to submit a request requesting the rejection of the Adams case, with the implicit career offer for those who have done and a potential punishment for those who did not do so. We finally advanced. Crosswell resigned.

“I had no job or insurance, but I prefer to be unemployed and not be assured only to work for someone who would do something like that to my colleagues,” he said.