US EditionJudge Rejects Ex-FBI Agent's Claim He Was Illegally Fired for Disparaging Trump in Texts
Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled Strzok failed to prove his 2018 firing violated First Amendment rights despite a prior $1.2 million DOJ settlement for privacy violations.
- A federal judge dismissed Peter Strzok's lawsuit claiming his firing from the FBI violated his constitutional rights, stating there was no genuine dispute of material fact against the defendants.
- Judge Amy Berman Jackson emphasized that Strzok's interest in political expression was outweighed by the FBI's need to avoid biased appearances in investigations.
- Strzok was terminated after anti-Trump text messages were uncovered during his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
- Although Strzok's claims were rejected, he can appeal the ruling to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Former FBI Agent Peter Strzok Loses First Amendment Case in Which He Claimed He Was Illegally Fired
by Misty Severi A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok’s long-running lawsuit in which he claimed he was illegally fired and that the Justice Department and FBI violated his free speech and privacy rights. The FBI terminated Strzok’s employment in 2018 after a review of thousands of his texts with bureau lawyer Lisa Page, with whom he was having an affair, showed a bias against then-GOP presidential nomine…
A federal judge dismissed on Tuesday the lawsuit of Peter Strzok, former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), who was disgraced, who claimed that he had been illegally dismissed and that the bureau and the Department of Justice had violated his rights to freedom of expression and privacy.Read more]]>
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Judge rejects ex-FBI agent's claim he was illegally fired for disparaging Trump in texts
A federal judge has thrown out a former FBI agent’s claims that he was wrongfully fired after sending disparaging text messages to a colleague about President Donald Trump.
Disgraced Russiagate hoaxer Peter Strzok gets some bad news regarding his federal case
Peter Strzok, the former FBI agent who launched the bureau's Crossfire Hurricane investigation into the Trump campaign, was fired in 2018.This termination took place several months after his removal from special counsel Robert Mueller's team over Strzok's damning text messages to then-FBI lawyer Lisa Page, which denigrated the very people the bureau was investigating, including President Donald Trump.'The Court finds that there is no genuine dis…
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