(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The DOJ Inspector General released a new report Wednesday, finding that an Assistant U.S. Attorney was caught engaging in prostitution. However, the Justice Department has declined to prosecute the attorney.
According to the report, the FBI provided the DOJ with the information that one of its own lawyers had “engaged in prostitution.” The FBI and DOJ Inspector General then conducted an investigation.
“The AUSA resigned from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) after being contacted by the OIG for an interview,” the DOJ IG report says. “When later contacted by the OIG for a voluntary interview, the AUSA declined to be interviewed … Criminal prosecution was declined.”
Wednesday’s report was just the latest instance of an FBI or DOJ employee engaging in sexual misconduct with impunity.
The DOJ has declined to prosecute one of its own attorneys who "engaged in prostitution," according to a DOJ Inspector General's press release from today. pic.twitter.com/oxKOHhQaqS
— Ken Silva (@JD_Cashless) September 2, 2026
In July 2025, for instance, The DOJ Inspector General issued a report finding that a then-FBI supervisory special agent solicited and used prostitutes overseas. Like with the above-mentioned AUSA, the Justice Department declined to prosecute the agent.
In October 2024, the DOJ-OIG released a report about how a federal prosecutor had a sexual relationship with the target of a police investigation.
According to that report, the DOJ-OIG received information from a local police department that a U.S. Attorney used his government-issued mobile device to engage in extensive, sexually explicit communications with someone who later became the target of a police investigation.
The DOJ-OIG said its investigation substantiated the local police department’s tip—but again, there was no prosecution.
According to a 2020 Associated Press article entitled, “Under the rug: Sexual misconduct shakes FBI’s senior ranks,” the last time the OIG did an extensive probe of sexual misconduct within the FBI, it tallied 343 “offenses” from fiscal years 2009 to 2012, including three instances of “videotaping undressed women without consent.”
That AP investigation identified at least six sexual misconduct allegations involving senior FBI officials over the past five years, including two new claims brought by women who say they were sexually assaulted by ranking agents.
“Each of the accused FBI officials appears to have avoided discipline, the AP found, and several were quietly transferred or retired, keeping their full pensions and benefits even when probes substantiated the sexual misconduct claims against them,” the AP reported in December 2020.
Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.
