You remember how Obama liked to talk about ‘systemic problems’ when it comes to the nation’s law enforcement and race? Well it turns out his very own DOJ had systemic problems in how they dealt with complaints about sexual harassment, according to the IG for the Justice Department:
FOX NEWS – The Justice Department scolded the Obama administration on Wednesday following a report on how sexual harassment of all kinds was improperly handled at the department for years.
The Washington Post reported that the DOJ’s inspector general had found “systemic” problems with how complaints were addressed, with offending officials often being let off the hook or even rewarded. The article cited investigative reports on a lawyer who allegedly groped two female attorneys and a top U.S. Marshals official who had sex with “approximately” nine women in his office.
Though fresh complaints have been filed as recently as August, the IG said some of the worst alleged offenses happened several years ago in the department’s Civil Division.
Here are some of the details…
Inspector General Michael Horowitz originally sent a memo in May alerting the DOJ to the potential “systemic issues.”
The Post reported that the IG found one top attorney in the Office of Immigration Litigation, Victor Lawrence, “groped the breasts and buttocks of two female trial attorneys” at a happy hour.
He reportedly got a reprimand, a title change and “relief from supervisory duties” but was not suspended and did not receive a loss in pay or grade. There reportedly was a concern that a suspension would “deprive the government” of his services.
One woman, who was not identified, told the Post she was “terrified” to get in an elevator out of concern he’d be there.
Several attorneys in the civil division reportedly got performance awards after the complaints. A female attorney, not identified by the Post, said, “They got free passes.”
How does an attorney grope breasts and butts during happy hour and not get suspended? That’s never an accident when it happens, no matter what certain politicians might allege. At the very least suspension without pay is warranted, especially when the staff is scared to be alone with this guy.
But hey, that was the Obama administration. No one in the media cared much about their abuses at the time and I’m sure they certainly won’t care about them now. No, the only thing they care about with Obama now is how well he criticizes Trump.