Daniel Bogden

Last updated

Bogden was one of eight attorneys dismissed as part of the Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy in 2006. When Bogden was fired, Nevada US Senator John Ensign (R), who had originally nominated him, was decidedly unhappy, particularly after hearing explanations by the Justice Department of the reasons. Ensign commented: "What the Justice Department testified yesterday is inconsistent with what they told me. I can't even tell you how upset I am at the Justice Department." [7] A week later, Ensign said "I'm calling on the President of the United States and the attorney general to restore Dan Bogden's reputation....Everyone in Nevada thought Dan had done a superb job....I believe a very good man was wronged and a process was flawed." [8]

Allegedly, Bogdan was fired for investigating Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons (R) for bribery. [2] [9] [10] [11] [12]

Paul McNulty, a senior DOJ official noted, in an email two days before the dismissals, "I'm still a little skittish about Bogden. He has been with DOJ since 1990 and, at age 50, has never had a job outside of government." [13] McNulty's "skittishness" was reportedly due to concern that Bogden would be unable to find employment and care for his family; this was assuaged in a 90-second meeting with Monica Goodling, where he was informed that Bogden was not married; this ended his concern, and the firing proceeded as planned. [14]

Joint action with the Federal Trade Commission

On August 25, 2016, Bogden joined with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in filing a lawsuit against the OMICS Group and Srinubabu Gedela, the president of the conglomerate [15] [16] The action was taken partly in response to on-going pressure from the academic community to act against predatory publishers and the organizers of predatory conferences. [17] The complaint was lodged with the United States District Court for the District of Nevada and alleges that the defendants have been "deceiving academics and researchers about the nature of its publications and hiding publication fees ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars" [16] and notes that "OMICS regularly advertises conferences featuring academic experts who were never scheduled to appear in order to attract registrants" [17] causing attendees to "spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on registration fees and travel costs to attend these scientific conferences." [16] Attorneys for the OMICS Group published a response on their website, claiming "your FTC allegations are baseless. Further we understand that FTC working towards favoring some subscription based journals publishers who are earning Billions of dollars from scientists literature," and suggesting that corporations in the scientific publishing business were behind the allegations. [15]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">United States Attorney General</span> Head of the United States Department of Justice

The United States attorney general (AG) is the head of the United States Department of Justice, and is the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government of the United States. The attorney general serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United States on all legal matters. The attorney general is a statutory member of the Cabinet of the United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Federal Trade Commission</span> United States government agency

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil (non-criminal) antitrust law and the promotion of consumer protection. The FTC shares jurisdiction over federal civil antitrust enforcement with the Department of Justice Antitrust Division. The agency is headquartered in the Federal Trade Commission Building in Washington, DC.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brian Sandoval</span> 29th Governor of Nevada

Brian Edward Sandoval is an American politician, academic administrator, and former federal judge who served as the 29th Governor of Nevada from 2011 to 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alberto Gonzales</span> 80th United States Attorney General

Alberto R. Gonzales is an American lawyer who served as the 80th United States Attorney General, appointed in February 2005 by President George W. Bush, becoming the highest-ranking Hispanic American in executive government to date. He was the first Hispanic person to serve as White House Counsel. Earlier he had been Bush's General Counsel during the latter's governorship of Texas. Gonzales had also served as Secretary of State of Texas and then as a Texas Supreme Court Justice.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paul McNulty</span>

Paul Joseph McNulty is an American attorney and university administrator who is currently the ninth president of Grove City College. He served as the Deputy Attorney General of the United States from March 17, 2006, to July 26, 2007. Prior to that, he was the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

On December 7, 2006, the George W. Bush Administration's Department of Justice ordered the unprecedented midterm dismissal of seven United States attorneys. Congressional investigations focused on whether the Department of Justice and the White House were using the U.S. Attorney positions for political advantage. Allegations were that some of the attorneys were targeted for dismissal to impede investigations of Republican politicians or that some were targeted for their failure to initiate investigations that would damage Democratic politicians or hamper Democratic-leaning voters. The U.S. attorneys were replaced with interim appointees, under provisions in the 2005 USA PATRIOT Act reauthorization.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bud Cummins</span> American lawyer

Harry Earnest Cummins, III, known as Bud Cummins, is an American attorney, businessman and politician. He served as United States Attorney with five years of service from 2001 to 2006 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David Iglesias</span> American lawyer

David Claudio Iglesias is an American attorney from Albuquerque, New Mexico.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paul K. Charlton</span> Former United States Attorney for Arizona

Paul K. Charlton is a former United States Attorney and current partner at the law firm of Dentons US LLP in the firm's Phoenix, Arizona office. Charlton concentrates his practice on high-profile and complex litigation, internal investigations and white-collar criminal defense. Charlton also represents a number of Arizona Native American governments, including Ak-Chin, Salt River Pima-Maricopa, Haulapai, the Navajo Nation, and Tohono O'odham.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Margaret Chiara</span>

Margaret M. Chiara is most notable for serving as United States Attorney for the Western District of Michigan. A Republican, she served from 2001 until she was dismissed in the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy on March 16, 2007. She had been Michigan's first female U.S. attorney

Monica Marie Goodling is a former United States government lawyer and Republican political appointee in the George W. Bush administration who is best known for her role in the Dismissal of U.S. Attorneys Controversy in 2006. She was the principal deputy director of public affairs for the United States Department of Justice, serving under Attorneys General John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales. A Department of Justice investigation concluded that she had violated the law, but she was not prosecuted because she had been granted immunity in exchange for her testimony. The Virginia State Bar publicly reprimanded Goodling in May 2011 for having "improperly utilized political affiliation and other political considerations when making hiring decisions for career positions."

During the 2007 Congressional investigation of the dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys, it was discovered that administration officials had been using a private Internet domain, called gwb43.com, owned by and hosted on an email server run by the Republican National Committee, for various official communications. The domain name is an abbreviation for "George W. Bush, 43rd" President of the United States. The use of this email domain became public when it was discovered that Scott Jennings, the White House's deputy director of political affairs, was using a gwb43.com email address to discuss the firing of the U.S. attorney for Arkansas. Communications by federal employees were also found on georgewbush.com and rnchq.org. Congressional requests for administration documents while investigating the dismissals of the U.S. attorneys required the Bush administration to reveal that not all internal White House emails were available. Conducting governmental business in this manner is a possible violation of the Presidential Records Act of 1978. Over 5 million emails may have been lost. Greg Palast claims to have come up with 500 of the Karl Rove emails, leading to damaging allegations. In 2009, it was announced that as many as 22 million emails may have been lost.

Michael J. Elston is a United States lawyer who serves as Acting Secretary of the Board of Governors for the United States Postal Service (USPS), in Washington, D.C. Elston has served as the Associate General Counsel and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer for the USPS since 2014. From November 2005 to June 2007, he was a political appointee in the administration of President George W. Bush, serving as the Chief of Staff & Counselor, Office of the Deputy Attorney General, United States Department of Justice, before resigning in the wake of the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy. He was appointed as an Assistant United States Attorney in 1999 by Attorney General Janet Reno.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dismissed U.S. attorneys summary</span>

This article about dismissed U.S. attorneys summarizes the circumstances surrounding a number of U.S. attorneys dismissed from office in the United States Department of Justice in 2006. Eight were dismissed In December 2006, and others may have been forced out of office under similar circumstances in 2005 and 2006. The manner of the firings, the congressional response to them, and the explanations offered by Bush administration officials are aspects of a political controversy starting in the first quarter of 2007. As of May 2007 a clear explanation of why the attorneys were dismissed had not been put forward by the Bush administration or the Department of Justice leadership. There are in total 93 U.S. attorneys that serve 94 Federal district courts.

A detailed chronology of events in the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division</span> Governing body in the US department of Justice

The United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division is a division of the U.S. Department of Justice that enforces U.S. antitrust law. It has exclusive jurisdiction over U.S. federal criminal antitrust prosecutions. It also has concurrent jurisdiction over civil antitrust enforcement, although it shares civil antitrust enforcement jurisdiction with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The Antitrust Division often works jointly with the FTC to provide regulatory guidance to businesses.

The United States House Committee on the Judiciary and the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, have oversight authority over Department of Justice (DOJ). In 2007 it conducted public and closed-door oversight and investigative hearings on the DOJ's interactions with the White House and staff members of the Executive Office of the President. A routine oversight hearing on January 18, 2007 by the Senate committee was the first public congressional occasion that Attorney General Gonzales responded to questions about dismissed United States Attorneys (USAs). Both committees invited or subpoenaed past and present Department of Justice officers and staff to appear and testify during 2007, and both committees requested or subpoenaed documents, and made the documents that were produced publicly available.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">OMICS Publishing Group</span> Discredited academic publishing company

OMICS Publishing Group is a predatory publisher of open access academic journals. It started publishing its first journal in 2008. By 2015, it claimed over 700 journals, although about half of them were defunct. Its subsidiaries and brands include Allied Academies, Conference Series LLC LTD, EuroSciCon LTD, Hilaris Publishing, iMedPub LTD, Longdom Publishing SL, Meetings International, Pulsus Group, Research & Reviews, SciTechnol, Trade Science Inc.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jeffrey Beall</span> American librarian

Jeffrey Beall is an American librarian and library scientist, who drew attention to "predatory open access publishing", a term he coined, and created Beall's list, a list of potentially predatory open-access publishers. He is a critic of the open access publishing movement and particularly how predatory publishers use the open access concept, and is known for his blog Scholarly Open Access. He has also written on this topic in The Charleston Advisor, in Nature, in Learned Publishing, and elsewhere.

Predatory conferences or predatory meetings are meetings set up to appear as legitimate scientific conferences but which are exploitative as they do not provide proper editorial control over presentations, and advertising can include claims of involvement of prominent academics who are, in fact, uninvolved. They are an expansion of the predatory publishing business model, which involves the creation of academic publications built around an exploitative business model that generally involves charging publication fees to authors without providing the editorial and publishing services associated with legitimate journals.

References

  1. ↑ Johnston, David; Lipton, Eric (2007-03-14). "'Loyalty' to Bush and Gonzales Was Factor in Prosecutors' Firings, E-Mail Shows". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-09-15.
  2. 1 2 "A U.S. Attorney's Story". The Atlantic . 20 April 2009.
  3. ↑ Friess, Steve (2009-08-01). "Familiar Face Reappears for Key Role in Nevada". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-09-15.
  4. ↑ "Dan's the man | Las Vegas Review-Journal". Archived from the original on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2016-12-07.
  5. ↑ Office (USAO), U. S. Attorney's. "U.S. Attorney's Office - U.S. Department of Justice". www.justice.gov. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  6. ↑ Wilson, Scott (August 1, 2009). "Obama Nominates Fired U.S. Attorney". The Washington Post .
  7. ↑ Steve Tetrealt (2007-03-08). "Ensign voices ire at agency: Explanations for dismissal of U.S. attorney differ". Las Vegas Review-Journal.
  8. ↑ Erica Werner (2007-03-13). "Ensign blisters DOJ over Bogden firing, doesn't seek resignations". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30.
  9. ↑ Rood, Justin. (2006-11-01) Talking Points Memo | WSJ: Gibbons Does the Donor-Favor Two-Step Archived 2007-02-20 at the Wayback Machine . TPMmuckraker. Retrieved on 2011-01-09.
  10. ↑ Steinhauer, Jennifer. (2007-05-30) STATEHOUSE JOURNAL – A Rocky Start for Nevada's Chief – NYTimes.com. Select.nytimes.com. Retrieved on 2011-01-09.
  11. ↑ Claims against Gibbons revealed – News – ReviewJournal.com. Lvrj.com. Retrieved on 2011-01-09.
  12. ↑ Gibbons relays conspiracy rumors – News – ReviewJournal.com
  13. ↑ "3-19-2007 DOJ-Released Documents 2-1 page 23" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-03-28. Retrieved 2007-03-20.
  14. ↑ Steve Tetrealt (2007-04-18). "U.S. ATTORNEY FIRINGS: 90 seconds called key". Las Vegas Review-Journal.
  15. 1 2 "FTC sues OMICS group: Are predatory publishers' days numbered?". STAT News. 2 September 2016. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
  16. 1 2 3 Shonka, David C.; Rusu, Ioana; Ashe, Gregory A.; Bogden, Daniel G.; Welsh, Blaine T. (25 August 2016). "Case No. 2:16-cv-02022 – Complaint for Permanent Injunction and Other Equitable Relief" (PDF). Case 2:16-cv-02022. Federal Trade Commission . Retrieved 22 October 2016.
  17. 1 2 Straumsheim, Carl (29 August 2016). "Federal Trade Commission begins to crack down on 'predatory' publishers". Inside Higher Ed . Retrieved 22 October 2016.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
Daniel Bogden
Daniel Bogden US Attorney.jpg
United States Attorney for the District of Nevada
In office
September 15, 2009 –March 10, 2017