USA. Federal agents were to deliver Elizabeth Oyer “a warning letter”. In the background the case of Mela Gibson

The US Department of Justice sent armed federal agents to provide a letter to Elizabeth Oyer, a dismissed employee of the Department of Justice. According to Reuters, the letter was a warning regarding her planned testimony against Congress. The clerk was released shortly after she refused to issue a recommendation, thanks to which actor Mel Gibson would regain the right to have a weapon.

US Marshals Service (USMS) agents are federal officers of the law enforcement in the United States, who mainly deal with locating and arresting suspicious prosecuted at federal level. The agency is subject to the Department of Justice.

According to Reuters, armed agents were sent to provide “warning letter” from the Department of Justice to Elizabeth Oyer, a dismissed employee of this ministry. It was about her testimony planned for Monday before Congress.

It is to testify on how the Trump administration treats the Department of Justice and law firms in situations where they deal with matters – as Reuters describes – “disliked” by currently ruling in USA.

The agents were canceled only after Oyer confirmed that she had previously received this letter by e -mail from the Department of Justice – informs Reuters.

Step “unprecedented and completely improper”

Michael Bromwich, Oyer representative, referred to the whole situation in a letter to the Department of Justice.

“This extremely unusual step involving the direction of armed law enforcement officers to the home of a former employee of the Department of Justice, who did not commit any offense, let alone crime, simply to provide a letter, is both unprecedented and completely wrong” – he wrote.

In the background the case of Mela Gibson

Elizabeth Oyer for presidency Joe Biden She was in the Department of Justice a plenipotentiary for pardon. She was dismissed from work at the beginning of March, after the change of administration.

According to her relationship, as well as several people familiar with the case, she lost her job the day after she refused to issue a recommendation, thanks to which Mel Gibson would regain the right to have a weapon. The actor lost them in 2011 after he was convicted of domestic violence – The court found him guilty of beating his former partner. He pleaded not guilty at the time, but he was punished with social work, three -year court supervision and a fine.

Dismissed clerk

Oyer had previously conveyed in an interview with the New York Times that in her department there were discussions about the restoration of the right to have a weapon to people who lost them in connection with domestic violence. She herself went to a special working group, which was supposed to develop a list of candidates. The created list covered 95 people whose sentences were issued a few decades ago or it was considered that the risk of recidivism was low. The list went to the office of the deputy general prosecutor of the USA Todd Blanche, which shortened her to nine names.

After Oyer prepared a note with recommendations that the indicated persons could be restored to having a weapon, she was asked to add Mel Gibson to the list. The request of his lawyer was attached to the request, in which he argued that Gibson was selected by the president on special position – Ambassador at Hollywood, And he also created successful films.

The clerk did not agree to express such a recommendation towards Gibson and pointed out that – unlike him – the other candidates from the list were checked in detail in order to determine the likelihood of their next crime. – Restoration (right to possess – ed.) Defends the perpetrators of domestic violence is a serious matter that is not something that I can recklessly recommend. There are real consequences resulting from the possession of firearms by people who used domestic violence in the past – said “NYT”.

After such a decision, Oyer answered the phone – as she described – from a high -ranking official who explained to her that “Mel Gibson has personal relations with President Trump and this should be a sufficient basis for issuing a recommendation. And that it would be wise to publish it wisely” – writes the New York daily. A few hours later, she was given a letter informing about the resignation.

“Significant interests” and confidentiality. A warning for a lawyer

Now Reuters quotes fragments of a letter signed by the deputy Prosecutor General Kendra Wharton, which the Department of Justice directed to Oyer.

“If you decide to appear before Congress, the department will expect that you will follow your duties arising from the law, department's policy and applicable professional responsibility,” wrote Wharton.

She added that “these issues include decision -making processes that are under the basis of pardon, restoring the rights to having firearms and related decisions.”

The spokesman for the Department of Justice has not yet referred to the case.