{"id":2985,"date":"2025-07-15T03:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/2025\/07\/shocking-firing-of-doj-ethics-advisor-shines-spotlight-on-ag-bondis-ethical-conflicts\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T03:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T07:00:20","slug":"shocking-firing-of-doj-ethics-advisor-shines-spotlight-on-ag-bondis-ethical-conflicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=2985","title":{"rendered":"Shocking Firing of DOJ Ethics Advisor Shines Spotlight on AG Bondi\u2019s Ethical Conflicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Today, Joseph Tirrell, the former U.S. Department of Justice Senior Executive in Charge of Ethics, disclosed in an online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/josephtirrell_fired-from-doj-without-cause-activity-7350484137532616704-cVlW\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/josephtirrell_fired-from-doj-without-cause-activity-7350484137532616704-cVlW\">post<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/document\/media\/v2\/D4E1FAQFrc2ZLhnGpwQ\/feedshare-document-pdf-analyzed\/B4EZgIqJOMG4AY-\/0\/1752491923971?e=1753315200&amp;v=beta&amp;t=yxawGlPXW3s1eE12hu1uXkuipL62IiWfI6zP0bVMhbc\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/document\/media\/v2\/D4E1FAQFrc2ZLhnGpwQ\/feedshare-document-pdf-analyzed\/B4EZgIqJOMG4AY-\/0\/1752491923971?e=1753315200&amp;v=beta&amp;t=yxawGlPXW3s1eE12hu1uXkuipL62IiWfI6zP0bVMhbc\">letter<\/a> he received on Friday from Attorney General Pam Bondi firing him without any stated reason. Bondi has been under fire for her own ethics conflicts, including her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/21\/us\/politics\/inquiry-pam-bondi-qatar-jet-trump.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/21\/us\/politics\/inquiry-pam-bondi-qatar-jet-trump.html\">approval of<\/a> her former client Qatar\u2019s gift of a $400 million luxury jet to President Trump and the DOJ\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/politics-government\/article309804745.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/politics-government\/article309804745.html\">apparent dropping of foreign corruption investigations<\/a> into <a href=\"https:\/\/extapps2.oge.gov\/201\/Presiden.nsf\/PAS+Index\/ABF60CD8EC97BBB585258C150032DCB2\/%24FILE\/Bondi%2C%20Pam%20%20final278.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/extapps2.oge.gov\/201\/Presiden.nsf\/PAS+Index\/ABF60CD8EC97BBB585258C150032DCB2\/$FILE\/Bondi%2C%20Pam%20%20final278.pdf\">Bondi\u2019s former law client<\/a> Pfizer. Public Citizen recently sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.org\/article\/letter-to-senate-judiciary-committee-requesting-oversight-hearing-into-ag-pam-bondis-pfizer-conflicts\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.org\/article\/letter-to-senate-judiciary-committee-requesting-oversight-hearing-into-ag-pam-bondis-pfizer-conflicts\/\">letter<\/a> to Congress requesting an oversight hearing into how Bondi has handled DOJ decisions related to Pfizer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBondi\u2019s sudden firing of the DOJ Ethics Advisor shines a bright spotlight back on her own glaring ethical conflicts and how she\u2019s handled major DOJ decisions involving her former clients like Qatar and Pfizer,\u201d said <strong>Public Citizen democracy advocate Jon Golinger. <\/strong>\u201cThe question this drastic firing raises is: are there even worse ethics problems Bondi is trying to hide?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Joseph Tirrell, the former U.S. Department of Justice Senior Executive in Charge of Ethics, disclosed in an online post a letter he received on Friday from Attorney General Pam Bondi firing him without any stated reason. Bondi has been under fire for her own ethics conflicts, including her approval of her former client Qatar\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-2985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}