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The former special counsel's somebody-done-somebody-wrong suit In the Loop Some might have thought the endless legal battles between former Office of Special Counsel chief Scott Bloch and officials in the George W. Bush administration ended when he was finally sentenced in March to one month in prison for contempt of Congress. Bloch, who was appointed by President Bush to Dr Martens 1460 BLACK+RED GRID PATENT LAMPER head an agency that protects government whistleblowers and enforces the law against political activity in government agencies, has filed a 63-page, $202 million lawsuit against top Bush adviser Karl Rove, former Virginia congressman Tom Davis and dozens of others for allegedly trying to thwart his office's efforts. When they failed, he claims, they launched a bogus criminal investigation to drive him out of his job. The RICO suit, which Bloch and his wife filed pro se, meaning as their own attorneys, last month in Fairfax County Circuit Court, also names other officials as defendants, including Lurita Doan, who was forced from her job as General Services Administration chief amidst allegations of political activity (which Bloch investigated) at her agency, and Clay Johnson, former deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. Those groups had called for an investigation of Bloch for allegedly retaliating against employees and for improperly dismissing whistleblower Louis Vuitton glasses cases. (Since the OSC couldn't investigate itself, Johnson in 2005 asked the Office of Personnel Management's inspector general to investigate. Bloch says that it was former White House counsel Harriet Miers who ordered Johnson to bring in the IG, but, oddly, she's not a named defendant.) guserviceonline(at)gmail.com
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