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Whistleblower alleges political pressure, lack of evidence in antisemitism probes targeting schools
The complaint says federal officials pressed schools to settle before investigations were complete and suspended hundreds of millions of dollars in funding.
- Former Justice Department attorney Haley Van Erem filed a whistleblower disclosure alleging that a federal task force pushed for financial settlements with Ivy League universities despite rushed, incomplete, or unproven investigations.
- The complaint asserts that the task force's outcomes were predetermined to strong-arm institutions like Brown, Harvard, and Columbia into cutting deals and accepting funding freezes under the pretext of combating antisemitism.
- According to the filing, investigative teams failed to find evidence supporting Title VI civil rights violations at Brown, while probes at Columbia relied on unsupported allegations from media stories and litigation filings.
- House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin publicized the claims and accused the administration of conducting a politically motivated operation to curtail academic freedom and strip research grants from universities.
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Whistleblower Says Federal University Antisemitism Probes Lacked Evidence
WASHINGTON — A former Justice Department civil-rights attorney says federal investigations into alleged antisemitism at several prominent universities were rushed, politically driven and, in some cases, unsupported by sufficient facts or law. Haley Van Erem made the allegations in a whistleblower disclosure filed with inspectors general at the Justice and Health and Human Services departments and with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel. Her atto…
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DOJ whistleblower alleges Ivy League antisemitism probes were ploys to harass and extract funds
An ex-DOJ lawyer alleges the probes were designed to strong-arm the schools into cutting deals for political purposes, under the pretext of rooting out...
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