I posted this on October 31, 2023:
Michelle Murray, Chief Counsel of Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG), has filed suit on her own behalf pro se (meaning she is representing herself) in federal court in Pennsylvania against Debbie Shaw (Supervisory Attorney at the Office of the Counsel for Investigations and Enforcement -- or OCIE -- at OIG), Joscelyn Funnie (Senior Executive at OCIE), Lisa Rein (a reporter at the Washington Post), WP Company (which owns the Washington Post -- identified in the complaint as "left-centered"), Faith Williams (Director of the Effective and Accountable Government Program at the Project on Government Oversight) and the Project on Government Oversight. The complaint alleges defamation, tortious interference, and false light invasion of privacy. My name is mentioned but not as a defendant.
Does anyone know what ever happened to this suit? Is it still around?
It appears to still be pending 1:24-cv-00640 in Middle District of PA. The last filings involved motions and responses in November 2024. Did not feel like going through PACER to get more info and charges
ReplyDelete@10:28 are we sure Charles is a lawyer if he can't get this basic information on his own?
ReplyDeleteSometimes we all hope there is a quick pointer to an article or someone authoritatively knows off the top of their head. It's exhausting to have to dig into everything, and frankly, Charles more than his fair share of making it easier for the rest of us.
ReplyDeleteThe case was transferred to the US District Court for the District of Columbia. On March 6, 2025 Judge Amit Mehta dismissed all of Murray’s claims against all ten defendants. That he was even able to untangle and make any sense of her convoluted arguments is impressive. He came down on her hard but undaunted, she filed a notice of her intent to appeal to the US Court of Appeals in DC. Now that’s she’s not at the OIG guess she needed something to occupy her time. She’s mysteriously not at OIG- word is she’s “unexpectedly out of the office for an undetermined period of time”. Perhaps one of the investigations into her misconduct has finally wrapped up? Good riddance!
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