A senior Justice Department official sexually assaulted an employee and pressured another worker to have sex with him in exchange for a promotion, the department’s inspector general said Tuesday. The official, who was not named, also sexually harassed at least two other female employees who worked for him, according to the watchdog’s report. The inspector general’s office found that the official had “abused his authority by coercing female employees in his chain of command to have sex with him.”
And yet:
But prosecutors declined to bring criminal charges against the official, the report said.
They had better have a very good reason.
Or else.
It’s quite conceivable the none of the victims wished to press a formal criminal charge, out of concern that to do so might limit their career ambitions within the DoJ or more broadly their prospects within federal civil service.
Yes, I agree, that might be what happened.
And I can imagine other good reasons as well.
But I want some facts.
You know as a man that has had fairly strong sexual desires and knowing some guys have an even harder time keeping their dick in their pants, I’m still slightly amazed at how many guy in high places really use that power to try fucking every woman in sight it seems like.
Wealthy white man is usually reason enough.
It’s an extremely effective intimidation tactic. Makes uppity wimmins sit down and shut up.
When you’re famous they just let you do it.
I’m not famous, but was fairly good looking when younger and actually could have had more consensual sex than I did, but realized that the woman might have had more desire for a deeper relationship so I didn’t follow through because I knew I was only interested in sex and not much more. And I’m not bragging and I’m not a hero, just try and treat others with some respect. Just surprising some guys, especially ones that have enough sense to make it to a high level position, have so little respect for others.
Oftentimes they negotiate a retirement instead of prosecution. Go quietly or we’ll make you go noisily.
Retirement plus pension. Ooh, what a punishment. On the other hand, it does get the offender away from an ongoing supply of victims.
Under so called Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s rules for defending male rapists for colleges and schools would render this DoJ case moot…if the accusers don’t have tapes or eye-witnesses to their being groped, raped, and tied down, then there is no case.
This is also probably the DOJ official who made sure Jeffrey Epstein gets away with rape…with a lot of help from Trump and Clinton and don’t forget Harvard’s own Alan Dershowitz.
The American Democracy and criminal justice system is a farce!
Sure, but if that’s what happened in this case it’s not enough.
Yes, and still wildly inadequate as punishment.
More than likely, especially if accused is a senior official.
I find as a retired COO and therefore dealt with this level on a daily basis, that those types have little respect for themselves let alone others. Power over others and cash seem to be the only motivating factor.
Absolutely disgusting. It’s 2018 you dumbasses…what on Earth makes you think this is REMOTELY acceptable?
Donald Trump as president isn’t remotely acceptable either, yet here we are.
Sayyyyyyyyy… didn’t Sessions just retire?
You said my comment for me. We need to stop quiet settlements in these cases where it seems there is a good pile of evidence and a pattern. Our laws are of no value if we don’t use them to punish the guilty. I can support a merciful settlement with a smaller offence and a regretful perpetrator, but this seems like a pattern with the abuser laughing his way to retirement.
And the offenses, and the non-prosecution, are all happening in the Department of Justice.
I’m so angry I might support chemical castration.