2026年3月30日 美国东部时间下午3:10 / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
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发布于2026年3月30日，美国东部时间下午3:10
联邦机构 | 国会新闻 | 唐纳德·特朗普
2026年2月20日，人们在华盛顿特区司法部大楼附近冒雨行走，大楼外悬挂着描绘美国总统唐纳德·特朗普的新横幅。
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一位曾对特朗普政府领导层提出过质疑的前联邦移民检察官、举报人如今已前往国会山，他表示司法部的内部监察办公室并未对他及其他人士的投诉展开任何调查。
埃雷兹·鲁韦尼的律师在周一寄给参众两院司法委员会领导层的一封信中表示，鲁韦尼因反对上级关于驱逐出境的法律立场而于去年被解雇，司法部监察长办公室并未对“过去15个月来提出的任何严重不当行为指控”展开调查，其中也包括国会议员提出的投诉。美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）获取了这封信的内容。
鲁韦尼的律师称，国会为司法部设立的整套问责体系如今已形同虚设。
信中写道：“该机构本应负责处理此类指控，却对所谓的大规模不当行为采取了漠视态度。”“监察长办公室无所作为之际，恰逢全国各地司法部律师的政府不当行为及违反法院命令的行为达到了前所未有的严重程度。”
信中补充道：“司法部问责机制的崩溃，以及司法部内部普遍存在的不当行为乱象，呼吁你们立即予以关注并展开严格监督。”
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周一，针对鲁韦尼的多项指控，司法部发言人回应称：“仅因这位前司法部雇员渴望重新获得关注度，并不意味着有合理理由对奉命履职、为美国积极辩护的司法部律师展开调查。”
监察长办公室未回应置评请求。
鲁韦尼去年首次向监察长和国会投诉，称特朗普新政府领导下的司法部领导层故意误导法院，且无意遵守法院命令。他还指控自己被解雇是“对其举报行为的报复”，而司法部对此予以否认。
鲁韦尼曾指控埃米尔·博夫——曾为唐纳德·特朗普辩护的律师、后升任司法部高级官员——粗暴地告诉司法部律师，可能需要考虑无视法院命令，当时政府正准备根据颇具争议的《敌侨法》将移民驱逐至萨尔瓦多。博夫随后被特朗普任命为美国第三巡回上诉法院的上诉法官，他坚称自己从未下达过会使其丧失联邦法官任职资格的指令。
监察长办公室今年1月最终告知鲁韦尼，将把他的指控转交给司法部内的另一个办公室——职业责任办公室。但鲁韦尼声称，该办公室几乎没有能力开展严肃的内部调查。
鲁韦尼的团队在信中写道，职业责任办公室的员工不足36人，而监察长办公室的员工则超过400人。现任司法部副部长托德·布兰奇已于去年免去了职业责任办公室负责人的职务。
“特朗普政府已对职业责任办公室实施了‘斩首’，”鲁韦尼在信中说道，“过去，监察长办公室会全力以赴处理移交至职业责任办公室的调查案件，还会与职业责任办公室合作开展重大调查……如今这些日子已一去不复返。职业责任办公室既未表现出开展调查的意愿，也不清楚它是否具备开展调查的资源。”
监察长办公室还表示，由于诉讼正在进行中，不会对他的举报人指控展开调查。鲁韦尼的律师认为，这同样是站不住脚的借口。
“几乎所有监察长办公室的调查都会涉及现有或可预见的诉讼，”信中写道。
事实上，过去司法部监察长办公室曾接手过针对司法部及联邦调查局内部不当行为指控的一些最重大调查，包括2016年俄罗斯干预总统选举调查之后的相关调查。当时的监察长迈克尔·霍洛维茨如今担任美联储董事会和消费者金融保护局的监察官。
DOJ whistleblower complains to Congress that internal watchdog isn’t doing its job
2026-03-30 3:10 PM ET / CNN
By Katelyn Polantz
20 min ago
PUBLISHED Mar 30, 2026, 3:10 PM ET
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A former federal immigration prosecutor and whistleblower who has taken issue with Trump administration leadership has now gone to Capitol Hill, saying the internal watchdog offices of the Justice Department are doing nothing to investigate his and other complaints.
Lawyers for Erez Reuveni, who was fired last year after opposing his superiors’ legal approach to deportations, say the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General hasn’t investigated “any of the serious allegations of misconduct made over the past 15 months,” including complaints made by members of Congress, according to a letter sent Monday to House and Senate Judiciary committee leaders and obtained by CNN.
The entire system of accountability that Congress had set up for the Justice Department is now dead, Reuveni’s attorneys say.
“The epidemic of alleged misconduct has been met with a shrug by the agency whose job it is to address such allegations,” the letter states. “The inaction of the OIG comes at a time when the amount of governmental misconduct and violation of court orders by DOJ lawyers around the country have reached epic and unprecedented proportions.”
It adds: “The collapse of DOJ’s accountability mechanisms, and the widespread evidence of an epidemic of misconduct within the DOJ, call for your immediate attention and rigorous oversight.”
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In response to several of Reuveni’s assertions on Monday, a Justice Department spokesman said, “Just because this former DOJ employee is desperate for relevancy doesn’t mean there is any legitimate basis to investigate DOJ attorneys being instructed to do their jobs and vigorously litigate on behalf of the United States.”
The IG’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
Reuveni first complained to the inspector general and Congress last year about his belief that Justice Department leaders under the new Trump administration were intentionally misleading courts and not interested in following court orders. He also alleged he was fired as “reprisal for his whistleblowing,” which the DOJ denies.
Reuveni had accused Emil Bove, a former Donald Trump defense lawyer-turned-top Justice Department official, of crudely telling DOJ attorneys they may need to consider ignoring court orders, as the administration was preparing to deport migrants to El Salvador under the controversial Alien Enemies Act. Bove was then appointed by Trump to become an appellate judge on the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals, and he maintained he hadn’t given any direction that would disqualify him for the federal bench.
The inspector general’s office this January ultimately told Reuveni it would refer his allegations to a different office at the Justice Department, the Office of Professional Responsibility. But that office, Reuveni claims, has little ability to seriously investigate internally.
The professional responsibility office has fewer than three dozen employees, whereas the inspector general’s office has more than 400, Reuveni’s team wrote. And the current Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche removed the chief of the professional responsibility office last year.
“The Trump administration has decapitated OPR,” Reuveni’s letter says. “Gone are the days when OIG used to fight tooth and nail to handle investigations assigned to OPR, and when OIG would work with OPR on major investigations … OPR has not expressed any interest in conducting the investigation, nor is it clear that it has the resources to do so.”
The inspector general’s office also said it wouldn’t investigate his whistleblower allegations because of pending litigation. That, too, was a faulty excuse, Reuveni’s lawyers argued.
“There is almost always existing or foreseeable litigation that relates to an OIG investigation,” his letter says.
In fact, in the past, the DOJ inspector general has taken on some of the most substantial investigations of accusations of wrongdoing within the department and the FBI, including after the 2016 investigation of Russian interference in the presidential election. The inspector general at the time, Michael Horowitz, is now the watchdog for the Federal Reserve Board and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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