Nearly seven years to the day after he was fired, a former federal prosecutor in Cleveland reached a settlement in January with the U.S. Justice Department in which he will receive full back pay, an additional $805,000 and an assignment as a work-from-home pardon attorney through May 2017.
The former prosecutor, identified as “John Doe” in court papers, was fired in January 2009 after the Justice Department determined he was no longer eligible for a security clearance. In the years leading up to his firing, the prosecutor said he had raised concerns about the department’s conduct and faced escalating retaliation.
