Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, criticized former U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney Erez Reuveni, who recently filed a whistleblower complaint alleging misconduct by Trump-era DOJ officials, arguing that the complaint is politically motivated and undermines the government’s legal case in the deportation matter involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia and other immigration cases.
On Tuesday, Reuveni filed a complaint claiming he attempted to advise his former client, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), that it was planning to engage in illegal activity in three separate immigration court cases, but was “thwarted, fired, and publicly disparaged” for his efforts by the Trump administration.
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