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Scandal-Plagued Ex-Bush Official's Law Firm Bio Brags He 'Attained Notoriety'
Justin Elliott | September 14, 2009, 6:05PM
Fmr. Head of OSC, Scott Bloch
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Nice catch by the Legal Times: Looks like Scott Bloch is putting out an interesting spin on the five scandal-plagued years he spent as chief of the Office of Special Counsel.
Bloch's bio page at D.C.-based Tarone & McLaughlin LLP, the business law firm where he now works, says "he attained notoriety as the head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel."
Indeed.
As Special Counsel, Bloch was in charge of disciplining federal employees for certain infractions and protecting whistleblowers. But he is instead remembered for a series of scandals, including allegedly intimidating his own employees, and allegedly summoning Geeks on Call to erase the files on his office computer -- and then paying them with taxpayer money.
That episode led to FBI raids of Bloch's home and office and a criminal investigation that, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia tells the Legal Times, is still ongoing.
Bloch's bio says he "garnered national news" and, apparently without shame, continues:
he ... has appeared regularly in the media on programs such as NPR (Morning Edition and All Things Considered), CNN, C-Span, < /SPAN>NBC Nightly News, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, US News & World Report, St. Louis Post Dispatch.
(A couple typical headlines from the New York Times: "New Scrutiny of Hiring At Justice Department" and "U.S. Agency And Home Of Its Chief Are Raided.")
Finally, the bio boasts, Bloch "has testified on federal rights before the United States Congress" -- an apparent reference to a Senate panel grilling Bloch about his failure to enforce a ban on discrimination of federal employees based on sexual orientation.
Also worth a look: the official site of the Scott Bloch Legal Defense Trust.
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dickday
September 14, 2009 7:49 PM
LOOK AT ME.
LOOK AT WHAT I GOT AWAY WITH.
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nckoalagal
September 14, 2009 9:12 PM
They don't understand the difference b/w "fame" and "notoriety."
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tpmreader
September 14, 2009 9:16 PM
TPM Readers may recall that Judicary Chairman Henry Waxman said with a warm and seemingly endearing with a lovingly smile and handshake to Blackwater Mr. Eric Prince whom testified the same day as Mr. Scott Bloch to this Judicary Committee "Don't worry, Scott Bloch is in much more trouble than you are in".
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September 14, 2009 9:51 PM in reply to tpmreader
Thank you for your time and consideration.
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GTFOOH
September 14, 2009 10:16 PM
With a name like Bloch, should we really expect more?
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Archivist
September 16, 2009 10:04 AM
The comments section to http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/post_5.php proves without a doubt, that Scott Bloch helps old ladies across the road, rescues puppies, gives great massages, and doesn't kick any dogs. Mr. Bloch is a fine man who did a fantastic job at the OSC.
(For those unwilling to click: this is a metajoke, he also 'gained notoriety' by ordering his underlings to write supportive comments on negative articles written about him. The TPM article highlighting this practice had a pretty funny comments section.)
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Mrs Panstreppon
September 16, 2009 3:47 PM
Scott Bloch is not a nice person. Among other things, he got his kicks out of going after Dem politicians so they would run up big legal bills. He cost Nevada Speaker of the House Richard Perkins $600k.
Bloch said gays weren't entitled to federal anti-discrimintation protection. He tried to run them out of the OSC by reassigning them to obscure posts far away from DC, replacing them with recruits from right wing Catholic law school, Ava Maria.
He got to DC through his connection to Sam Brownback and went to work as a Faith-Based Initiative lawyer in the DOJ under Ashcroft.
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