Comments on: Gate Guard v. Perez: the sequel https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/03/labor-department-crashes-and-burns-in-gate-guard-case-the-sequel/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 11 Mar 2016 20:58:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: gitarcarver https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/03/labor-department-crashes-and-burns-in-gate-guard-case-the-sequel/comment-page-1/#comment-334103 Fri, 11 Mar 2016 20:58:35 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=58051#comment-334103 As a commenter on the Coyote Blog noted, while the Department of Labor was fined, it was the taxpayers who actually paid the fine. Other than being a taxpayer, those responsible for the “investigation and prosecution [which] violated the department’s internal procedures and ethical litigation practices,” those who did the deed are not going to be punished, pay a part of the fine directly or anything like that.

Instead, those who did the acts and their supervisors will continue to wort at the DOL which will then come before Congress asking for an increase in funding since the fine took away money they could have used to (illegally?) prosecute and persecute other businesses.

There will never be changes in government malfeasance and illegal / non-ethical acts until those actually doing those acts are held accountable.

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