Thread by @SenWhitehouse

A disappearing IG complaint about Emil Bove? What, “the dog ate it”? This Emil Bove mess could not smell much worse, until you sniff out the rest of the story.

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nytimes.com/2025/07/31/us/…

This was a guy who set the all-time Department of Justice record for prosecutorial misconduct, with three significant episodes in six months (plus whatever cover-up he did of Jeffrey Epstein’s files — he wouldn’t answer). Nothing even comes close.

A misconduct complaint from the New York Bar was referred to the Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility, which never acted on it. (Bondi had cleared out the career OPR person and put in a MAGA person, so I doubt it got a hard look.)

Over in the Senate, the Judiciary Committee “rollover Republicans” ignored three whistleblowers, two career prosecutors’ resignation letters, and a pending contempt proceeding, to stuff Bove through without honest answers. (Hear no evil.)

They let MAGA AG Bondi and DAG Blanche sit in the hearing to give committee Republicans the MAGA eyeball. (Remember Frank Pentangeli’s father coming to the Senate hearing in “The Godfather Part II”?)

That contempt proceeding? It was “pending” because two Trump judges on the DC Circuit blocked it for three months, with a procedure usually limited to days, possibly so Bove could get through the Senate before the contempt hearing could produce evidence.

Just now, MAGA Bondi brought a complaint against the judge whose contempt hearing was stayed, obviously to “create a conflict” that would prevent him from looking into MAGA DOJ’s misconduct and embarrassing Senate “hear no evil” Republicans.