Biden ATF promoted agents who knowingly broke federal directives: GOP senators

Two Republicans in the Senate call for immediate corrective measures in the tobacco office, firearms and explosives (ATF), accusing agency officials of great misconduct, mismanagement, abuse of power and potential criminal misconduct after ignoring supervisory employees, ignoring federal directives and standards to inflate them.

What’s more, instead of discipline, supervisory agents who were claimed to have sparked a party to misconduct – and in some cases it was claimed to be promoted from the violations they were trying to expose – under the Biden administration.

As a result of the illegal ATF behavior, ATF employees who were appointed to these positions have been an administrative work, but they illegally obtained the salaries of law enforcement and the benefits that were not entitled, and wasting millions of taxpayers dollars, Darskol.

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In their letter, Senate members were martyred with two internal investigations from the OPM Office (OPM), which ended in 2020 and finally suspended the ATF classification authority, and the IAD ID Division (IAD), which was completed in early 2024. Senate members.

In their letter, Grassley and Ernst identified the supervisory agents, Lisa Bokin and Ralph Bitayari, who say that IAD audits not only allows this classification plan to communicate – although he knew that he violated OPM directions and standards – but also for revenge on the violations you are trying to clarify.

Moreover, Boykin and Bittelari were promoted before President Joe Biden left his post and continues to work at ATF under the leadership of President Donald Trump.

In one case, according to the members of the Senate, Bittelari and Boykin decided to move forward with the transfer of ATF law enforcement officer in Phoenix to an administrative position at the ATF headquarters in Washington, DC, although the situation was determined as not classified. It is claimed that the IAD report appears at the beginning, Bittelari agreed to cancel the work offer, but after a later conversation with Boykin I decided to move forward with unauthorized transportation anyway.

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Moreover, in their message, Senators claimed that the IAD report shows that Bittelari tried to hide the “illegal mission” by providing direct promotion to salary statements for treatment.

During another case when Bittelari sought an incorrectly describing classification for the head of the ATF (WWSD) department as law enforcement, Senators said that the human resource classification specialist has been threatened with rebellion after retracting the matter and sending an email to notify employees that it represents a violation of OPM and standards indicators.

Senator also highlighted the “disturbing lack of frankness” of Boachin regarding the installation of the WWSD president. According to the members of the Senate, Boykin told IAD investigators that it was not sure whether the WWSD president was installed before agreeing to describe the situation at all. However, Senate members said, Boykin’s email messages showed that the individual attended meetings and jobs with Boykin as President of WWSD before obtaining approval, and a draft description of the center was created jointly weeks ago the spouses before approval of the official WWSD president’s description.

“The results contained in the iad report provide clear evidence that corrective measures should be taken for Ms. Bokin’s misconduct and at least.” “However, the Biden ATF and Doj leadership not only failed to hold Boykin or Bittelari about their serious misconduct, but the disclosure of those who are legally protected from the violations submitted to our offices have been promoted that these professional bureaucrats were promoted after the end of the IAD investigation who criticized their harsh actions.”

In their message, Senators notes that Bokeen was promoted to the chief diversity employee during the Biden era, but in January 2025, his title was transferred to “senior executives.” Meanwhile, Senators also referred to Bittelari, which was promoted to the chief adviser to the Department of Justice Department at the Ministry of Justice (JMD), and the Acting Vice Director of Human Resources at JMD.

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In conclusion, the results received in the IAD and OPM audit indicates the allegations made by the informants to our offices that the top bureaucrats ATF, Ms. Bokin and Mr. Bittelari are working in the total waste and hatred, fraud, and poor abuse of taxpayers expenses on illegal reduction, and retreat from the guidance plan. Bondi and Drescol.

“They completely ignore the law despite its perfect awareness of the potential consequences,” Boykin and Bittelari should not have leadership positions in the Ministry of Justice or its components. “

ATF has previously been criticized for “defrauding” directive from President Donald Trump to curb Dei’s efforts in federal agencies. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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In addition to calling for a corrective procedure, Grassley and Ernst requested that it does not exceed 23 May, the Ministry of Justice provides in response to how to plan the issues laid down in the IAD report and their speech.

The Ministry of Justice refused to comment on this article, while ATF did not respond to Fox News Digital inquiries.