Back in the introductory business class I took once at a community college, the teacher went through the textbook chapter by chapter, covering everything from marketing to sales, from international business to finance, from accounting to operations, etc.
The last chapter in the textbook, as one should expect from a greedy immoral business world, was the poor relative of the other topics, namely "business ethics", a Johnny-come-late notion which the world of business was pushed kicking and screaming into at least talking about. Business is fundamentally unethical, so how could it teach ethics?
By the end of the semester, when we reached the final chapter of the text, I was stunned when the teacher announced, "I don't teach business ethics because I have none!" and we skipped the chapter altogether.
So it goes in the United Scams of America, a country built and run by giant corporations whose sole objective is to make money. And now that a bunch of billionaire scammers runs the country, it makes sense for the Department of Justice to rid itself of any ethics program or advisory body.
The DOJ's Attorney General Pam Bondi just fired the top DOJ Ethics Officer. She may not replace him, gutting the ethics program altogether or she may appoint one of Trump's immoral slithering snakes who will do "ethics" the Trump way.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi fires top Justice Department ethics official
ALEXANDER MALLIN
Mon, July 14, 2025
Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired one of the top career officials tasked with advising her and other senior Justice Department officials of their ethical obligations, an official familiar with the dismissal confirmed to ABC News Monday.
Joseph Tirrell on Monday took to LinkedIn to post news of his termination, including a photo of his termination notice which provided no reasoning for his firing.
"Until Friday evening, I was the senior ethics attorney at the Department of Justice responsible for advising the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General directly on federal employee ethics," Tirrell said in the post. "I was also responsible for the day-to-day operations of the ethics program across the Department."
The removal letter from Bondi mirrors that of letters sent to multiple other DOJ employees fired in recent weeks, including at least 20 officials who supported former special counsel Jack Smith's team in his prosecutions of President Donald Trump.
Tirrell did not respond to a request for comment from ABC News. A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment when contacted by ABC News.
Tirrell's post outlined an extensive resume in public service, beginning with his time as a United States Naval Officer before he joined the FBI in 2006 in various ethics-related posts.
Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images - PHOTO: Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a cabinet meeting hosted by US President Donald Trump in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, July 8, 2025.
In 2023 he was appointed as the director of the DOJ's Ethics Office, which advises employees of the rules governing financial disclosures, conflicts of interest and instances mandating recusal. among others.
It's unclear what specifically prompted Tirrell's firing, though several former officials noted that he was leading the office when Smith disclosed, after departing the DOJ, that Smith had accepted $140,000 in pro bono legal services as a "gift." The disclosure noted that Tirrell specifically signed off on the gift as being in compliance with applicable ethics laws and regulations.
Tirrell's dismissal also comes amid several other removals of officials who worked on Smith's team, as well as at least two more career prosecutors who worked on the investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Both investigations have been under the microscope of former interim D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin since he joined the main Justice Department to lead its so-called "Weaponization Working Group."
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There’s been a mass exodus at the DOJ’s Federal Programs Branch—a unit specifically tasked with defending Trump’s most aggressive policies in court.
Of the 110 lawyers at the Federal Programs Branch, 69 have either already quit or announced that they’re quitting since Trump won in November, according to Reuters. Many of them left because they felt overwhelmed by the workload (they’re fighting an “unprecedented number of lawsuits,” one DOJ spokesperson said). Others felt ideologically compromised by the positions the administration was forcing them to defend, like the end of birthright citizenship, massive DOGE cuts from Elon Musk, or the countless extrajudicial deportations carried out by ICE.
“Many of these people came to work at Federal Programs to defend aspects of our constitutional system,” one of the outgoing lawyers told Reuters. “How could they participate in the project of tearing it down?”
The Federal Programs Branch plays a crucial role in pushing Trump’s agenda forward, and the Justice Department is working actively to refill the positions with individuals more inclined to mindlessly carry out the president’s will, no matter how blatantly unconstitutional.
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