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Maggie Haberman? @maggieNYTJustice Department's Corporate Crime Watchdog Resigns, Saying Trump Makes It Impossible To Do Job
One of the Justice Departments top corporate crime watchdogs has resigned, declaring that she cannot enforce ethics laws against companies while, she asserts, her own bosses in the Trump administration have been engaging in conduct that she said she would never tolerate in corporations.
Hui Chen -- a former Pfizer and Microsoft lawyer who also was a federal prosecutor -- had been the departments compliance counsel. She left the department in June and broke her silence about her move in a recent LinkedIn post that sounded an alarm about the Trump administrations behavior.
Trying to hold companies to standards that our current administration is not living up to was creating a cognitive dissonance that I could not overcome," Chen wrote. To sit across the table from companies and question how committed they were to ethics and compliance felt not only hypocritical, but very much like shuffling the deck chair on the Titanic. Even as I engaged in those questioning and evaluations, on my mind were the numerous lawsuits pending against the President of the United States for everything from violations of the Constitution to conflict of interest, the ongoing investigations of potentially treasonous conducts, and the investigators and prosecutors fired for their pursuits of principles and facts. Those are conducts I would not tolerate seeing in a company, yet I worked under an administration that engaged in exactly those conduct. I wanted no more part in it.
My ability to do good at a more micro-level, by exchanging ideas with the compliance community on ways to assess the effectiveness of compliance programs, was severely limited, she wrote. The management of the Criminal Division, of which the Fraud Section is a part, has persistently prohibited me from public speaking.
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Wow. Justice Dept's Corporate Crime Watchdog Resigns: "Like Shuffling Deck Chairs on the Titanic" (Original Post)
bigtree
Jul 2017
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mucifer
(23,559 posts)1. Paging Dr. Mueller !
dlk
(11,575 posts)2. More Evidence We Have Become a Corporate Autocracy
We are the United Corporations more than ever.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)3. something on the wire along those lines
Link to tweet
Washington (CNN) Civil rights and LGBT activists say they are concerned about President Donald Trump's nomination Thursday of Eric Dreiband to head the Justice Department's civil rights division because of his work defending major corporations and others against discrimination lawsuits.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/01/politics/eric-dreiband-justice-department-civil-rights-lgbt/index.html
MadCrow
(155 posts)4. Kudo's to her. Integrity won over hypocrisy.
ailsagirl
(22,898 posts)5. Quite a concept these days!!