A whistleblower attorney “provided police officials with an external hard drive for them to load with e-mail and other data responding to his discovery request. When he got it back, he found something he didn’t request.”
The hard drive contained three Trojans, including a password logger and “a program that connects to attacker-controlled servers and downloads and installs additional programs.”
Lawyer representing whistle blowers finds malware on drive supplied by cops
Ars Technica
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An eight-month inquiry led by Sen. Chuck Grassley “focused on allegations that DOJ had paid millions of dollars in grant money to Wisconsin and four other states and territories that jailed vulnerable children with adults in violation of federal law.
“Since then, the investigation has widened both in scope and geographically, with whistleblowers asserting that oversight failures may have led to unlawful OJJDP grants to Alabama, Idaho, Illinois, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington, D.C.”
Senate Panel Hearing Airs Whistleblowers’ OJJDP Concerns
Juvenile Justice Information Exchange
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The Government Accountability Project… found that “the UN Ethics Office which is responsible for receiving appeals for protection from UN whistleblowers, failed to protect more than 98 per cent of those who approached it for help between 2007 and 2010.”
The UN, protector of corrupt officials who steal aid from desperate victims
Daily Nation