The Justice Department's inspector general and the department's Office of Professional Responsibility have notified the Senate Judiciary Committee of an expanded investigation into hiring practices at the agency.The wider probe involves, among other things, allegations of improper practices by Rockford native Michael Elston in the operation of the department's Honors Program and Summer Law Intern Program.
Elston, who was chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, already has been questioned by congressional investigators behind closed doors in connection with the controversy over the firing of eight federal prosecutors.
Elston has been accused by several of those cashiered prosecutors of threatening them with retaliation if they made a fuss over their dismissals.
Background on Elston's role in the Attorneygate scandal can be found here and through the links therein.
Elston, who was chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, already has been questioned by congressional investigators behind closed doors in connection with the controversy over the firing of eight federal prosecutors.
Elston has been accused by several of those cashiered prosecutors of threatening them with retaliation if they made a fuss over their dismissals.
Background on Elston's role in the Attorneygate scandal can be found here and through the links therein.
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