#DoJ
48 entries tagged DoJ.
People (45)
- Arnold Burns Arnold Burns served as Deputy Attorney General under Edwin Meese and was the senior DOJ official whose private admission to investigators that INSLAW's proprietary rights claim was legitimate became a central finding of the House Judiciary Committee's 1992 INSLAW investigation.
- C. Madison Brewer C. Madison 'Brick' Brewer was the DOJ project manager for the INSLAW PROMIS implementation contract, whose prior employment as general counsel for INSLAW's predecessor organization became central to allegations that his administration of the contract was driven by personal vendetta against Bill Hamilton.
- Charles R. Work Charles R. Work was Deputy Chief of the DC U.S. Attorney's Office Superior Court Division who co-directed the original PROMIS design team with Joan E. Jacoby and project manager Bill Hamilton in 1969, then served as Deputy Administrator of LEAA from 1973 to 1975 where he continued funding INSLAW and PROMIS expansion.
- Charles Trombetta Charles Trombetta was identified by Lois Battistoni as an individual who might have information about the DOJ and Inslaw.
- D. Lowell Jensen See Lowell Jensen.
- Danny Casolaro Joseph Daniel Casolaro was an American freelance journalist investigating a sprawling criminal conspiracy he called 'The Octopus,' linking the PROMIS software theft to Iran-Contra, the October Surprise, and BCCI. He was found dead in a Martinsburg, West Virginia hotel room on August 10, 1991, his wrists slashed twelve times, in a death officially ruled suicide.
- Dennis W. Wright Dennis W. Wright was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team who went on to work for INSLAW directly by 1974, and by 1990 was a Senior Research Computer Scientist in the DOJ's ICMS Re-engineering project within the Division of Innovations and Systems Development.
- Donald Carr DOJ political appointee who showed a 1985 document revealing PROMIS software was being provided to an Arab Sheik for resale.
- Earl Brian Earl Brian was a California physician and businessman who served in Ronald Reagan's California cabinet alongside Edwin Meese and was named by INSLAW, Michael Riconosciuto, and the House Judiciary Committee as the central figure in the alleged conspiracy to steal and distribute the PROMIS software.
- Edward Hurley Edward Hurley was a Vice President at Hadron, Inc., in charge of its criminal justice systems work.
- Edwin Meese Edwin Meese served as Counselor to President Reagan and then as Attorney General from 1985 to 1988, and was named by INSLAW and the House Judiciary Committee as a central figure in the alleged conspiracy to steal the PROMIS software through his long association with Earl Brian and his recusal from PROMIS matters that left Lowell Jensen to administer the affair.
- Elliot Richardson Elliot Richardson served as U.S. Attorney General under Nixon before resigning during the Saturday Night Massacre, and later became INSLAW's lead outside counsel, declaring the PROMIS conspiracy 'far more sinister than anything revealed in Watergate' and publicly stating his belief that Danny Casolaro was murdered.
- Floyd Bankson Floyd Bankson was a system engineer in the Criminal Division of the DOJ, involved with the implementation of Project Eagle.
- Garnett Taylor Garnett Taylor was a former security officer at the DOJ.
- George Francis Bason, Jr. George Francis Bason Jr. was the D.C. Bankruptcy Court judge who ruled in 1987 that the DOJ stole INSLAW's PROMIS software by trickery, fraud, and deceit, and whose non-reappointment generated allegations of DOJ retaliation.
- Ian Stuart Spiro However, news reports, specifically from the *Oceanside Blade-Citizen*, noted that documents and U.S.
- Jack Rugh Jack Rugh was a figure in the PROMIS Software Scandal, primarily involved in the administration of the Inslaw contract with the DOJ.
- James Johnston James Johnston was the Director of Contract Administration in the Justice Management Division of the DOJ.
- James Knapp James Knapp was a non-career Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the DOJ.
- Janet Reno Wilcher was interviewed by Carl Stern, Reno's public relations man, regarding the contents of the letter.
- Janis Sposato Janis Sposato was an Administrative Officer at the DOJ.
- John A. Beltori Individual identified by INSLAW as a witness providing circumstantial evidence of a conspiracy by Earl Brian and DOJ to steal PROMIS software.
- John Keeney John Keeney was a career Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the DOJ.
- John Otto John Otto was the former Acting Director of the FBI.
- Jonathan Ben Cnaan Jonathan Ben Cnaan was an account executive with 53rd Street Ventures, a New York City venture capital firm that held a small equity investment in Inslaw.
- Lois Battistoni Lois Battistoni was a former administrative employee of the DOJ Criminal Division.
- Lowell Jensen D. Lowell Jensen served as Alameda County District Attorney, then as Associate Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General under Edwin Meese, and was named by INSLAW and the House Judiciary Committee as a key figure in the alleged conspiracy to steal and suppress the PROMIS software.
- Marilyn Jacobs Marilyn Jacobs was the secretary to Lowell Jensen at the DOJ.
- Mark Richards Mark Richards was a career Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the DOJ.
- Mark W. Everson Mark W. Everson served in the Reagan DOJ from 1982 to 1988 as deputy commissioner of INS, later became IRS Commissioner from 2003 to 2007, and is associated with a restricted PROMIS-related file in the National Archives whose connection to his DOJ tenure has not been publicly explained.
- Miles Matthews Miles Matthews was the Executive Officer of the Criminal Division within the DOJ.
- Nicholas J. Bua Special Counsel appointed in 1991 to investigate the Inslaw/PROMIS allegations, whose 1993 report found no credible evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
- Patricia Wald Patricia Wald was the Chief Judge of the U.S.
- Paul Wilcher On or about May 21, 1993, Wilcher hand-delivered a 100-page letter to Janet Reno, the Attorney General, claiming that holdover DOJ employees from the Reagan-Bush era were responsible for a number of government cover-ups, unbeknownst to the Attorney General and President Bill Clinton.
- Peter Videnieks Peter Videnieks was the DOJ contracting officer who administered the INSLAW-PROMIS implementation contract, negotiated Modification 12 in April 1983, and became a central figure in allegations that the government deliberately defrauded INSLAW of its proprietary software.
- Richard Thornburgh Richard Thornburgh (1932-2020) served as U.S. Attorney General from 1988 to 1991 under Presidents Reagan and Bush, succeeding Edwin Meese, and was named alongside Meese in the House Judiciary Committee's 1992 INSLAW report as having blocked or restricted congressional inquiries into the PROMIS software theft, ignored two court findings against the DOJ, and refused to seek appointment of an independent counsel.
- Robert Bratt Robert Bratt was the Executive Officer for the DOJ's Criminal Division.
- Robert Whitely Robert Whitely was the DOJ's auditor on the Inslaw contract.
- Ronald LeGrand Ronald LeGrand was the Chief Investigator for the Senate Judiciary Committee.
- Sandra Spooner Sandra Spooner was the Deputy Director of the Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, within the DOJ.
- Scott Lawrence Lawrence's investigation quickly expanded beyond the software to follow a drug trail.
- Thomas Olmstead Olmstead questioned Peter Videnieks during the trial about his knowledge of the Wackenhut Corporation-Cabazon Indian Reservation joint venture, his relationship with Earl Brian, and his involvement with Hadron Company.
- William Bradford Reynolds William Bradford Reynolds served as Reagan's Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights from 1981 to 1988 and in 2005 authenticated a May 16, 1985 letter he had signed directing U.S. Attorney William F. Weld that PROMIS software equipped with a surveillance back door was to be distributed to a Saudi sheikh via arms dealers Manucher Ghorbanifar, Adnan Khashoggi, and Richard Armitage, with funds routed through Credit Suisse and the National Commercial Bank.
- William Bryant, Jr. Senior U.S. District Court Judge who affirmed the bankruptcy court's findings in the INSLAW case, ruling DOJ performed its contract in a hostile environment.
- William French Smith William French Smith (1917-1990) served as U.S. Attorney General from 1981 to 1985 under President Reagan, and as the first Reagan AG signed the secret 1982 Memorandum of Understanding with CIA director William J. Casey that removed drug offenses from the list of crimes CIA assets were required to report to the Department of Justice.
Organizations (2)
- INSLAW INSLAW, Inc. is a Washington-area software company that developed the PROMIS case management system and became the center of a major legal and political scandal after alleging the U.S. Department of Justice stole its proprietary software and drove the company into bankruptcy.
- U.S. Attorney's office The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia was the original client for the PROMIS case management software, commissioning the system in 1969 under U.S. Attorney Thomas A. Flannery and deploying it January 1, 1971; the EOUSA later signed the March 1982 implementation contract with INSLAW that became the central dispute in the PROMIS Software Scandal.
Programs (1)
- PROMIS Software Scandal The INSLAW Affair was a protracted legal and political scandal arising from allegations that the U.S. Department of Justice stole the PROMIS case management software from its developer, drove the company into bankruptcy, and distributed the software internationally, with intelligence agencies reportedly embedding a surveillance backdoor.