Harmeet Dhillon
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the mere microaggressions and the use of language that most of us would find pretty normal.
But if you're looking for offense, that's protected in the workplace.
And employees are required to go through this indoctrination.
And we have to sit through these videos.
I had to do it here at the Department of Justice about using the correct language and not offending your coworkers.
And yet,
this is a big blind spot that occurred here, a total lack of enforcement on the religious front.
And so we won't stand for it at the DOJ.
And I think we're putting schools on notice that this is not going to be tolerated.
This is a very lengthy investigation that we have been going through for years.
And I also want to add that before we filed this complaint, we had a lot of criticism in the press.
I think the LA Times did a hit piece on us and
said that we were trying to concoct a case where there wasn't one.
I think you can read the complaint and see that this is an extremely strong case.
We have significant efforts here.
First of all, we have a new assistant attorney general slot that is specifically focused on this type of government benefits fraud.
And, you know, we're ginning up that effort.
But even before that, in the major cities, particularly where we have a lot of this type of fraud, my friend Bill LaSalle in Los Angeles, who's the first assistant United States attorney there,
was the president's nominee for that position.
He's been focused on this and has gone on to bust and bring some significant prosecutions with respect to theft of these government resources.