LilMikeSF<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> apparently fired 17 year govt veteran <a href="https://c.im/tags/PR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PR</span></a> woman over her previous assigned role in crafting press releases regarding <a href="https://c.im/tags/January6th" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>January6th</span></a> cases. </p><p>Patty Hartman, who held a supervisory <a href="https://c.im/tags/PublicAffairs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicAffairs</span></a> specialist role for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington D.C.,said she was terminated wrongfully last week merely because her name appeared on hundreds of news releases issued over Jan. 6 riot cases. All her news releases were written in what she called a standard “boilerplate way, with just the bare facts” without inserting personal opinion or any injected political bias or commentary. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Jan6th" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jan6th</span></a> Capitol "insurrection" cases were largest prosecution in DOJ history, with about 1,500 people federally <a href="https://c.im/tags/charged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>charged</span></a> of which more than 1,000 <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jan_6_defendants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jan_6_defendants</span></a> plead <a href="https://c.im/tags/guilty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>guilty</span></a>, and some 260 <a href="https://c.im/tags/convicted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>convicted</span></a> in formal <a href="https://c.im/tags/federal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>federal</span></a> trials, according to official DOJ data.</p><p><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fired-justice-department-official-we-are-falling-into-an-abyss/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbsnews.com/news/fired-justice</span><span class="invisible">-department-official-we-are-falling-into-an-abyss/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.inquirer.com/politics/patty-hartman-fired-attorney-general-pam-bondi-20250716.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">inquirer.com/politics/patty-ha</span><span class="invisible">rtman-fired-attorney-general-pam-bondi-20250716.html</span></a></p>