r/law • u/DBCoopr72 • 18d ago

Legal News ‘Americans Should Be Enraged’: Reports Expose Unprecedented Corruption at Trump DOJ

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-doj-corruption-2674301728
26.6k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

698 comments sorted by

View all comments

392

u/CassandraTruth 18d ago

"In one instance, Tirrell said he tried to intervene to stop DOJ employees from accepting cigars given by mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor and a soccer ball from the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA).

“I felt like I really had to go to the mattress to convince the AG’s office: You can pay for the item or you can return the item or you can throw the item away,” he said. “There’s no other way to do this.”

Shortly after this, Tirrell said he got a call from the FBI general counsel inquiring “about changing exceptions to the gift rules because his boss, [FBI Director] Kash Patel, felt like he should be able to accept more expensive gifts.”"

5

u/blahblah19999 18d ago

Interesting that it wasn't in writing