Continuing to insist that the DOJ had no jurisdiction over his office, Van Valkenburg groused that the unsparing report issued four months earlier by Acting Assistant U.S. Attorney General Jocelyn Samuels “was the single most unprofessional thing I have seen in my practice of law in 41 years. It hurts hugely to see my staff defamed….I can’t tell the number of sleepless nights I’ve had thinking about how this happened. Why did the United States Department of Justice do what they did here?” As Van Valkenburg uttered these words, Jocelyn Samuels was standing a few feet away. After he finished
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