The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is withholding records related to high-profile investigations, including the probe into President Joe Biden’s son, according to a new lawsuit.
Protect the Public’s Trust, a watchdog, has been seeking records seeking ethics waivers and determinations on allowing potentially conflicted employees to work on cases, but has been stymied.
The group submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) records request on June 1, 2021, but did not receive a response for over a year, according to the suit.
After inquiring about the status on June 10, 2022, the watchdog received an acknowledgment that had been sent to the wrong email address. But the records have still not been sent, nor have key determinations about which records will be provided, which violates federal law….