@BracewellLaw just hired Alamdar Hamdani, the former Biden-appt US attorney who weaponized his authority to try send me to prison for a decade for blowing the whistle with @realchrisrufo about TCH's secret pediatric sex change program.
It's only too ironic they hired him to handle "government investigations."
Let's take a trip down memory lane so Bracewell can better get to know the new partner their bringing to their firm.
During his time as US Attorney, he broke away from traditional DOJ practices and went fully rogue.
In his case against me, Hamdani bypassed the entire DOJ chain of command to run my case with a single prosecutor.
I know for a fact this is very atypical because my wife is an assistant US atty and one of the attorneys defending me, Ryan Patrick, was the former US Attorney for the Southern District right before Hamdani.
I imagined Hamdani was treating this case like an inappropriate office romance because he wanted to conceal this "government investigation" from his colleagues.
This is no surprise since it was the first time in American history the DOJ was using HIPAA not to protect patient privacy but multi-billion-dollar hospital systems - TCH and Baylor.
If you think this is bad, just wait until you see who he chose as the single prosecutor to run this case.
Great reporting about this one from @AndrewCMcCarthy.
That prosecutor was Tina Ansari who is the top contender for GOAT when it comes to flagrant ethical violations. These were both personal - like threatening my wife - and potentially criminal - like practicing law in Texas with a suspended Bar license.
But Hamdani has a knack for choosing the right personnel for this kind of scheme because in the case of Tina Ansari the victims in the indictment - TCH and Baylor - were also the institutions which her family had deep personal and potentially financial ties with (Ansari pulled herself off the case after my attorneys informed DOJ of these conflicts).
So, not only did Hamdani pursue an unprecedented reinterpretation of HIPAA but chose a prosecutor whose family stood to benefit the most from the corruption.
Hopefully Bracewell has solid ethics attorney because those conflicts of interest can be a treacherous minefield.
Great reporting from @EdWhelanEPPC.
Hamdani also hasn't proven to be very adept at identifying "factual evidence" since what was included in his first indictment was pure fiction.
This stench becomes even more odorous once everyone realized their "factual evidence" was disproved by their own discovery.
This was the Stevie Wonder approach to criminal prosecution - never look at your own evidence; instead, allow pure creativity and vibes to guide the way.
Unlike for Stevie, this didn't work out too well for them. They scrapped their first indictment after Ansari essentially conceded she presented false information to a grand jury - only she didn't do so "knowingly."
Bracewell should also make sure they assign a spellchecker to Hamdani since it took his team six months to realize they left a critical typo in the operational language of not one but TWO of their indictments.
It seems whatever Hamdani and his team lacked in proofreading is made up for in shameless targeting of whistleblowers.
It would be wise for Bracewell to make sure he doesn't spend too much time lurking around the anonymous complaint box.
Bracewell should also make sure they assign Hamdani an extra paralegal or two.
Once we made his team aware that their "evidence" was just as phony as their legal interpretation of HIPAA, they simply resorted to inventing new criminal statutory language.
This could be seen after their first indictment fell apart - they had to axe the legally actionable language and sneak in something else.
They landed on the word "use" instead of "disclose" - since they knew there was never any disclosure of patient information.
And "use" makes sense. It is common enough to fly under the radar, yet broad enough to cast a wide range of conduct as criminal - perfect for Team Hamdani.
The problem is that the word "use" is not included anywhere in the HIPAA criminal statute - the Judge pointed this out in a not so delicate fashion during a hearing in November.
It was during this hearing that the DOJ chain of command was finally brought into the fold since Judge Hittner ordered the Southern District's criminal chief, Ted Imperato, to attend in person.
Because Imperato was in attendance, he became a firsthand witness to Tina Ansari's public meltdown in court.
Her failures were so hard to watch, the Judge allowed the DOJ's second chair on the case, Jessica Feinstein, to step in and attempt a cleanup.
At this hearing Hamdani's team requested the judge clean up their mess and "strike" the errors from the indictment. Despite their epic failure in the courtroom, they explicitly stated they would not file a second superseding indictment.
Their motion to strike the language was denied.
The unprecedented failures and monumental conflicts were simply too great and Ansari withdrew herself from the case soon after this hearing.
She couldn't help herself and ran into the door one last time before making her final exit.
In a truly spectacular move of shamelessness, she withdrew herself from the case under a sealed motion.
She broke a new glass ceiling by introducing the Irish goodbye into the legal world.
Much thanks to @Not_the_Bee and @pnjaban for jumping in to help unseal this motion.
But Hamdani authorized the new AUSA, Jessica Feinstein, to do exactly what his team said they wouldn't do in front of the Judge - they filed a third superseding indictment.
During Hamdani's onboarding, Bracewell should seriously consider including a refresher on the concept of "candor to the court."
They should also consider a refresher on the first amendment since Hamdani's team filed a motion for a gag order on the same day of their third indictment.
Great reporting from @ProfMJCleveland about the gag order.
Apparently, they thought a gag order was appropriate against someone like me who has never been recognized publicly, whose trial is set in one of the biggest federal districts, and despite there being a whole list of remedies (i.e. voir dire) that should be used first.
Of course, this was never about me being able to prejudice a jury, instead, was about Hamdani's delicate prosecutors not getting their feelings hurt. And this wasn't an assumption on my part but rather their own stated reasoning.
They actually wrote in their motion they were "concerned" about "online bullying." They even used statements from @KyleSeraphin, @feelsdesperate, and @MikeBenzCyber to justify their violation of my first amendment.
Luckily for Hamdani, Judge Hittner was just as corrupt as they were. He threatened to send me to jail if I continued "similar conduct" (i.e. criticizing the government).
But Hamdani and his band of miscreants were unsuccessful.
I defied their blatantly unconstitutional de facto gag order and the Judge tried to send me to jail for it.
But once Hamdani left his position after Trump's inauguration, the acting US Attorney filed a motion to dismiss the case with prejudice before crazy Judge Hittner could sign his arrest warrant.
With the case over and Hamdani gone from the US Attorney's Office, he could slink away to start a "new chapter" as he recently said in one of his recent LinkedIn posts.
It's no secret as to what kind of company he plans to hold because congratulating him on his new position at Bracewell was none other than Matthew Graves.
Thanks to great reporting from @julie_kelly2 we know Graves is the architect of one of the most corrupt USAO's in the country and therefore, one of the leaders of the deep state goblin army.
Bracewell may very well be excited to share this "new chapter" with Alamdar Hamdani.
But they should know that there is an old chapter that isn't quite finished yet.
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@JudiciaryGOP sent a letter to lead prosecutor, Tina Ansari, requesting her at a hearing April 9th.
They cite an "enormous conflict of interest" between Ansari and Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH).
Part of this story has remained untold. They're so close that now is the time.
The backbone of the entire case was testimony of a TCH doctor.
Best witness for the govt, worst for the truth.
Thus, I believe Ansari’s conflicts are more than a passive ethical issue; instead, operationally weaponized to find the right people to create the case against me.
We have to go back to the first indictment, May 2024.
Their case was built on one main witness-Dr. Larry Hollier, TCH's Chief of Surgery.
He led the DOJ/FBI to believe "an asteroid would have to hit Gulf of Mexico" for me to be operating/taking care of patients at TCH.
One year before Judge Hittner, a Regan appointee, took on my case, a well-known trans-activist/drag performer, Brigitte Bandit (they/them), was twerking in his courtroom.
Bandit and other trans activists, represented by the ACLU, were challenging SB-12, law passed by the Texas Senate which banned sexualized drag performances in front of children.
Hittner seemed to be quite moved by Bandit's performance because he ended up striking down SB-12, ensuring the twerking going on in his courtroom would also continue in front of children.
The story surrounding SB-12 is so important because it helps explain one of the main contradictions in my case - how was it possible that a seemingly conservative Judge allowed the DOJ to break every rule in the book to target a whistleblower who exposed a major hospital for lying about harmful transgender interventions?
A deep dive into the SB-12 hearings shows this was no contradiction. 🧵
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To start this off, consider Judge Hittner's response to the New Yorker after he overturned the bill. He was asked about his reaction to Bandit twerking in his courtroom.
They write, "The moment seemed to have impressed the judge. 'Darn it, it was interesting...you learn about different things and different folks and different science every day.'”
From this response you can see that Hittner seemed positively enamored. But what was it about this case that he was so interested in? What "science" was Hittner referring to?
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Was Hittner referring to the moment he asked the plaintiffs to explain what they meant by a "death drop?"
Which is when a when drag performer, sometimes dressed in string bikinis, bends one leg behind their exposed butt and does a split.
They go on to explain this is often associated with wardrobe malfunctions, resulting in exposure of the performer's genitalia to the audience.
Last week, a DOJ memo went out to all employees indicating that steps would be taken to restore faith in the DOJ after its weaponization under the corrupt Biden regime. 🧵
According to this memo, reports will be provided quarterly to President Trump. One of those reports includes "the retaliatory targeting and in some instances criminal prosecution of legitimate whistleblowers."
I realize quarterly is a pretty frequent basis. I figure why not give whoever is writing these reports a little bit of a head start so in this thread I included some questions that are in critical need of answers.
Is Tina Ansari, the former lead prosecutor, still employed as an AUSA after my attorneys wrote a letter to Congress detailing how she threatened my wife - who was just hired as an AUSA in the Northern District of Texas and undergoing a background check - during their first phone call?
Per their letter, Ansari claimed my wife was interfering with an investigation when she encouraged me to not speak with federal agents the first time they showed up.
She went on to say she wouldn't bring up my wife's behavior to background investigators "unless [Mrs. Haim] becomes difficult."
Is Tina Ansari still employed as an AUSA even though she unconstitutionally and in an unprecedented manner reinterpreted HIPAA to claim multi-billion-dollar hospitals systems have the same privacy rights as vulnerable patients?
This was the pretense used to try to send me to prison for a decade after exposing misconduct in TCH and Baylor - the very misconduct which was voted to become illegal the very next day in the State of Texas and is being outlawed throughout most Western countries.
Last month the DOJ's case was blown apart, the truth revealing the remarkable absurdity of their arguments. 🧵
This happened after the DOJ disclosed bombshell evidence to my legal team on September 13th. This came to us at 5:30 PM on a Friday which also happened to be the last business day before a critical deadline - we had to file our responses to their motions by that Monday.
We couldn't help but notice the irony that it was also Friday the 13th.
This disclosure showed that key factual evidence the DOJ was using in their indictment and all subsequent motions was egregiously false.
The story of how this played out is pretty unbelievable. Ryan Patrick, one of my attorneys, put it well - "How we've gotten to this place is beyond bizarre and in my nearly 20 years practicing criminal law, I have never seen a case play out like this."
I believe it's worth taking a deeper dive.
This is a thread of the basic summary from publicly available motions and statements from my attorneys (link to docket below). courtlistener.com/docket/6886091…
The cost of all of this has been astronomical given the complexity of this case. We can't do this alone so any donation can go to the legal fund (link below). givesendgo.com/texas_whistleb…
The Friday the 13th disclosure refuted one of the central claims in the DOJ's case - that I requested access to the TCH medical record system under false pretenses.
They spell out this claim very explicitly since it is the basis for the first of four felony charges.
In a motion from September 6th, they state "after January 2021, the defendant had no patients under his care at TCH."
In the same motion they go on to say, "On April 19, 2023, the defendant emailed an administrator at TCH urgently requesting that his login credentials be restored so he could access “operative cases” he was “covering.”
They emphatically state their conclusion in four words, "This was a lie."
Once we receive the DOJ's disclosure, it becomes clear many of the "facts" the DOJ were using were anything but factual.
First of all, the DOJ's claim that "after January 2021, the defendant had no patients under his care at TCH" was completely false.
The disclosure revealed that I was taking care of TCH patients (adult and pediatric) well after January 2021, all the way until April 2023.
And April 2023 is important because this is where they claimed I lied about needing to cover "operative cases."
Again, the opposite is true. It turns out I was operating at TCH in April 2023, the same time that I made my request for access.
A reasonable person might ask, how it is possible that the most powerful investigative agency in the history of the world, the FBI, could miss such basic facts? Did they even look into whether my requests were sincere, or did they simply assume I was lying?