« previous | MUCK HOME | next »
Report: Minnesota USA Under Investigation
The federal Office of Special Counsel is investigating the US attorney for Minnesota, Rachel Paulose, for a variety of infractions, former Minneapolis Star Tribune reporter Eric Black reports on his blog.
In March, Paulose, a former special aide to Alberto Gonzales and Federalist Society member, replaced Tom Heffelfinger, who resigned before the mass firings of nine US attorneys, although his name was later discovered on one of the lists of prosecutors under consideration for termination. The U.S Attorney's Office went through a major staff shakeup after Paulose's arrival. Four of the top attorney's in the office resigned to rank and file prosecutor positions saying they disagreed with the young attorney's management style and lack of experience.
From Black:
The federal Office of Special Counsel is investigating allegations that Rachel Paulose, U.S. attorney for Minnesota, mishandled classified information, decided to fire the subordinate who called it to her attention, retaliated against others in the office who crossed her, and made racist remarks about one employee.
Black reports that one of the four prosecutors who resigned knew Paulose, who has developed a reputation for quoting Bible verses, would likely fire him before he decided to step down.
The US Attorney's Office in Minnesota is working on a statement. We'll update you as soon as we have it.
Comments (42)
Anonymous wrote on September 18, 2007 3:19 PM:Wonderful.
iggy wrote on September 18, 2007 3:27 PM:This gal seems an insufferable drip, but one cannot say that in mixed company without being called sexist or racist or both.
Was waiting for something from her. Usual BS from the other side of the aisle. Love to see the denigration remarks made about her!
doctorscience wrote on September 18, 2007 3:33 PM:Hmmmm..... Another Regent grad?
jeffgee wrote on September 18, 2007 3:36 PM:A loyal Bushie with Rovian retaliation against anyone who disagrees with her political agenda, quoting Bible verses at work. Charming. She skipped over the parts in the Bible about lying and turning the other cheek.
Anonymous wrote on September 18, 2007 3:39 PM:It's going to take years to weed out the cancer of Loyal Bushies installed in every level of government. More proof that DiIulio was right about the total politicization of everything in Mayberry.
doctorscience, Nope, Yale grad.
doctorscience wrote on September 18, 2007 3:56 PM:Anonymous wrote on September 18, 2007 3:39 PM:
doctorscience, Nope, Yale grad.
OMG! So am I. So is GWB. How embarassing!
tbhull wrote on September 18, 2007 4:00 PM:God understands.
heh wrote on September 18, 2007 4:02 PM:jeffgee:
More proof that DiIulio was right about the total politicization of everything in Mayberry ---
yeah, I recall that comment when he made it.It seemed he was very hesitant, but it has come to pass.
the doofuses in the white house just wanted it to be their secret and look at how its blowing up in their faces.
Rachel Poulose, the very smart minority woman foot soldier good friend of Monica Goodling. I wonder where Monica is now. Maybe there is an opening in Poulose' district?
What kind of job is she even qualified for?
eric wrote on September 18, 2007 4:25 PM:It boggles the mind that someone like this got through Yale Law. All indications that she is just another Goodling-style sycophant.
McCoy wrote on September 18, 2007 4:27 PM:It's quite curious how "Christians" can be such spiteful, angry, mean people. I guess memorizing the Bible is not quite the same thing as understanding what it's authors are trying to communicate.
Matt wrote on September 18, 2007 4:31 PM:Hard to criticize... she's hot...
bubba wrote on September 18, 2007 4:50 PM:She may be a neo-con wing nut....but she is sort of hot!
bubba wrote on September 18, 2007 4:50 PM:She may be a neo-con wing nut....but she is sort of hot!
Dee Illuminati wrote on September 18, 2007 4:57 PM:"A wicked man accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the course of justice."
-Proverbs 17:23
govs wrote on September 18, 2007 5:27 PM:A larger more sinister story may be buried here. Paulose worked for the law firm that was defending the CEO of Ubited Health Group in a variety of civil actions from alleagtions that he had backdated stock options that resulted in hundreds of million dollars in gains for him; The CEO was a huge GOP contributor but Paulose's predecessor was looking into potential criminal violations involved in the backdating; the predecessor unexpectedly and abruptly resigned, Paulose was appointed (and confirmed without any senate hearings) and promptly changed the priortites of the office to child pornography and illegal immigration. Stay tuned.
Yossarian wrote on September 18, 2007 5:29 PM:You guys find this horse face hot? Wow! She is as ugly inside as she is outside. Never seen a worse lookin' chick than her. If I were directing Shakespearean plays I would cast her as one of the witches in Macbeth.
heh wrote on September 18, 2007 5:58 PM:well, I'm glad she's being looked into and hopefully we'll get to the bottom of the Ubited Health Group stock scandal through the investigation.
Geez, do you think the country will survive such corruption at seemingly every level of government?
Bloix wrote on September 18, 2007 6:13 PM:Paulose is an Indian American who came to the US when she was 2 years old. You can see her ethnicity more clearly in the photo here, http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/cat_law.html
She is from a prominent family of an Indian Christian community called the Kerala Brethren, a Christian evangelical sect with extreme views.
Her biography shows that she's a very smart, hard-working, ambitious young woman: graduated summa from U Minn, Truman Scholar, Coker Fellow at Yale Law, appellate clerkship.
What appears to have happened is that this combination of high intelligence, Christian fundamentalism, inexperience, and utter lack of self-doubt was effectively put to use by Rove and Gonzales. I expect that Paulose believes that by her work she is making great strides toward bringing the millenial rule of Christ here on earth.
Son of Defarge wrote on September 18, 2007 6:29 PM:Michelle Malkin's long lost half-sister, one more in a tedious line of Christianist goons
Powkat wrote on September 18, 2007 6:40 PM:You are allowed to critcize anyone imcompetent - race, gender, national origin doesn't matter. Crooked is crooked - altho I must say rich, old, white men seem to have perfected crooked.
sandy wrote on September 18, 2007 8:20 PM:I read somewhere that her swearing in was full of pomp and circumstances..with 100's attending a full gospel choir, the works..she feels she's quite special
busdrivermike wrote on September 18, 2007 8:37 PM:Paulose has pledged to fight child pornographers, and has stated that they are becoming:
“ more graphic, more heinous, and frankly appalling. ”
So, when does the prosecution of Larry Craig begin? After all, there might have been a child in that Minneapolis airport bathroom.
Mauimom wrote on September 18, 2007 9:09 PM:"OMG! So am I. So is GWB. How embarassing!"
They must not have had spelling on the LSATs.
"embarrassing"
Anonymous wrote on September 18, 2007 9:17 PM:Son of Defarge wrote: "Michelle Malkin's long lost half-sister, one more in a tedious line of Christianist goons"
Yeah, SoD, after Paulose resigns, I do expect her to show up on the AM dial with her own spit-spraying batshit crazy radio show.
sandy wrote "I read somewhere that her swearing in was full of pomp and circumstances.. with 100's attending a full gospel choir, the works.."
Yes, Paulose had what amounted to a coronation at a local law school. I guess she felt she deserved it.
fitley wrote on September 18, 2007 9:21 PM:She's hot
But she's a twat
Don't bother thinking bout
Paulose
What's not to love. She fucks with the old timers in the dept. Walks around the office speaking in tongues and quoting bible verses. Great, shouldn't all offices be like this. How can this irritating beaver be allowed to work for the government.
John wrote on September 18, 2007 9:38 PM:She did not return calls for comment? Of course she didn't, she lives with her parents and they probably said that she can't use the phone after 8 pm. I am not kidding about where she lives, with her parents in a million dollar home in Eagan, MN. She's the Justice Department's equivalent of Ignatius J. Reilly
chard wrote on September 18, 2007 10:00 PM:Bloix:
You forgot "naked ambition and opportunism."
vivek wrote on September 18, 2007 10:53 PM:she is from united states of india. state called kerala. a state dominated by christian fundies. lot of indian christians came to US in 70s and 80s based on being a christian.
Georgia Guy wrote on September 18, 2007 11:22 PM:I have United Healthcare through work for the past two years and coverage meant my out of pocket cost tripled. They use every tactic in the book to deny payment. The backdating scandal won The Wall Street Journal a Pulitzer Prize for its reporting. It looks likes there will be no indictment for United's former CEO William McGuire, a major contributor to Republicans. He made over a billion dollars as CEO and deserves a long jail sentence. They should confiscate all his property and all his financial accounts.
shebangs wrote on September 18, 2007 11:55 PM:This woman exhibits the horrible combination of christian fundamentalism and caste system exclusion. No one will ever measure up...except Christ. And by the way, notice that all of her mentors are white old guys....
Scott wrote on September 19, 2007 1:18 AM:These are the frontline troops to topple the Republic and replace it with "GOD's COUNTRY". Then we will be able to spread the WORD at the end of our guns to a world in need of us.
Nancy Irving wrote on September 19, 2007 1:24 AM:And Alberto Gonzales graduated from Harvard Law.
Almost enough to make you rethink this "affirmative action" thing, huh? :)
EH wrote on September 19, 2007 1:28 AM:That we even find out about these turds is likely more an issue of momentum than anything. The wave of political crap was rolling through the administration and these kids got thrown off the horse. Look how lame every one of them has been.
John Ashcroft is inexplicably redeemed while all of this is going on.
Nobody of any competence in the administration has been burned by the politics except for the supremely incompetent and sour (Libby apparently played this role in the inner circle). Can you imagine working side by side with Kyle Sampson? Owtch. The place must just be rife with those who were just not as incompetent as Goodling, Schlozman, Sampson, Doan...and that's really not a high bar even with the absolute lamers tossed out into the gutter.
Anonymous wrote on September 19, 2007 1:33 AM:Is she wearing a hairpiece?
Lemming wrote on September 19, 2007 1:37 AM:I wonder if Rachel Palouse's relationship with Monica Goodling is responsible for a small $10mn yearly revenue Bloomington, MN based company getting its Top Secret security clearance to do buisiness with Boeing Aerospace. The COO for the Bloomington, MN company in 2004 was also a Indian Kerala Christian who knew Palouse's parents socially. After initially being turned down for the Top Secret security clearance that decision was reversed within a few months and the Bloomington, MN based company received its Top Secret security clearance.
heckuva job bushie! wrote on September 19, 2007 3:01 AM:Pedophiles and shrill, obnoxious neophytes on the DOJ payroll take heart! Because what counts in the end in with this administration is whether you're with us or against us. Everything else can be overlooked.
oppositionradio wrote on September 19, 2007 3:03 AM:when did TPM media get overrun by frat boys?
This is disgusting - one would think a US attorney from Minnesota might be taking a look into the shady reports on the 35w bridge which were shaped to fit the pawlenty government policy.
The United Health Group scandal is an entirely different matter - when is the press going to link the outrageous sums being made by United and other health insurance providers with the horse sh*t health care we have in this country? A friend of mine was up in the UHG corporate offices a month or so ago and was sickened by the ridiculous excesses in furnishings and art - while so many suffer miserable health care conditions and exorbitant health care rates.
William Bollinger wrote on September 19, 2007 8:03 AM:Oppositionradio, when did TPM media get overrun by frat boys? When you were linked to by Wonkette. This is the usual chatter there. Fun, but unsophisticated.
When is the press going to link the outrageous sums being made by United and other health insurance providers? When they aren't owned by the same corporations making the outrageous sums being made by United and other health insurance providers.
Anonymous wrote on September 19, 2007 8:39 AM:No, I for one cannot imagine working alongside these religious wackos.
JNagarya wrote on September 19, 2007 2:31 PM:"tbhull wrote on September 18, 2007 4:00 PM:
"God understands."
And disapproves.
disbelievinginnyc wrote on September 21, 2007 2:35 PM:
disbelievinginnyc wrote on September 21, 2007 2:36 PM:TPM was all over Ms. Paulose last spring and posted a video of a long interview she gave with a local tv station. I clicked on it and ended up watching almost a full hour, I was so stunned. What struck me so completely was what little regard the DoJ "leadership" had/has for the position of US Attorney that they would appoint this woman. The hubris just flowed off of her. It was the ultimate in Bushian false bravado. I could only imagine what the career attorneys must have been thinking of their new boss. And her "coronation"... wow! TPM covered this as well. The only things missing were the flight suit and the Mission Accomplished sign.
Let's just say I had a feeling we'd be hearing about Ms. Paulose again before too long. Major kudos to TPM for being out in front... as usual.
ny