On March 30, 2011 Judge Deborah A. Robinson denied Scott Bloch’s motion to reconsider his guilty plea on the criminal contempt of Congress case USA v Scott Bloch. Scott Bloch was the former Special Counsel for the Office of Special Counsel and was accused of dismissing hundreds of whistleblower cases without investigation.
Scott Bloch, in the face of a federal investigation, asked Geeks on Call to wipe his computer clean of all digital files thus destroying evidence that the FBI was seeking in the Congressional investigation. On March 30, 2011 Scott Bloch was sentenced to one month in prison by a D.C. federal court.
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One month? That's incredibly ridiculous!
ReplyDeleteIt should be years, this in not the only person looking the other way and what was his reward for looking the other way.
ReplyDeleteA month is something, but still not much.
ReplyDeleteLooks more like he was awarded a vacation instead of punishment.
ReplyDeleteONE MONTH IN PRISON?
ReplyDeleteWhat the heck is this about?
Oh gee what a message to others.
I'm shaking in my shoes over this joke of a punishment all that motive and intent to obstruct justice and we paid his salary while the good people were submitting their evidence of wrondoing?
I N S A N I T Y and I strongly disagree and object
I hate this. Where would we be without whistleblowers? They should be protected and anybody who tries to interfere with that protection should be severely punished, starting with Scott Bloch.
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