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No Complaints Filed Against Schlozman in Kansas

It looks like Bradley Schlozman will escape prosecution, at least for now, despite having been found in a DOJ report to have broken the law by politicizing hiring decisions at the department, and then lying about it to a Senate committee.

But a flood of readers has written in to ask whether Schloz might still be disbarred in the state of Kansas, where he's currently practicing law.

So we called the state's disciplinary administrator, who would handle the issue. Stanton Hazlett told TPMmuckraker that Schlozman has been registered in the state since 1994, but no complaints about him have been filed.

Indeed, Hazlett at first said he wasn't familiar with Schlozman's name, and asked us to send him the DOJ's report released this morning. Eventually, he said that he did recall the allegations of politicized hiring, but wasn't aware that Schlozman had lied to Congress about it. Unsurprisingly, Hazlett suggested that he would take such a matter very seriously.

We'll keep you posted on any developments...

Late Update: The Washington Post reports:

Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine and Office of Professional Responsibility chief H. Marshall Jarrett said they would refer their findings to legal disciplinary authorities.

According to one TPMmuckraker source: "DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility routinely refers findings of ethics violations by Justice Department lawyers to the state bar associations in states where that lawyer is licensed to practice".

So perhaps those complaints will soon start coming in.


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Almost forgot the chinless castralto from the bad old days. Brad, if there is justice in the world, you'll go to jail and get a dorm room full of brothers to live with.

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Regardless of whether Congress finds the courage to fulfill their oaths and protect the Constitution (i.e., prosecute these criminals), I think it important that there be some public ritual to acknowledge and condemn the steaming pile (mountain) of illegal and unconstitutional acts committed on behalf of the Bush administration.

Otherwise we risk allowing these crimes to become even more central to the national id.

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TPM is not an RTA.

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AB, Unfortunately these sorts of "crimes" are central to the national ID. The majority of politicians and bar overseers are themselves members of the bar-- America's aristocracy. Until non-lawyer American's understand this and take action, corruption in our country will continue to proliferate.

History repeats and this is Rome all over again...

We're chronicling the fall at http://www.evilesq.com

Josh et al... nice raking!

We're very surprised H. Marshall Jarrett, Esquire got his hands dirty on this one. His office refused to intercede in the Miles Ehrlich matter in which Ehrlich, a former Assistant United States attorney (San Francisco, white collar crime division head) obtained information regarding criminal activity, including the identities of the perpetrators, quit the D.O.J., established a private law practice and began furtively representing the criminal "suspects" the victim identified to him. That case needs some raking!

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