{"id":48710,"date":"2013-07-08T19:59:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T18:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/state-departments-watergate-office-of-high-profile-whistleblower-lawyer-burglarized\/48710\/"},"modified":"2013-07-08T19:59:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T18:59:40","slug":"state-departments-watergate-office-of-high-profile-whistleblower-lawyer-burglarized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/state-departments-watergate-office-of-high-profile-whistleblower-lawyer-burglarized\/","title":{"rendered":"State Department&#039;s Watergate? Office of high-profile whistleblower lawyer burglarized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas law office representing a State Department whistleblower was broken into and robbed during the first weekend of July. Three computers were stolen and the firm\u2019s file cabinets had been searched, but valuables were left untouched.<\/p>\n<p>\n  <i>\u201cIt\u2019s a crazy, strange and suspicious situation,\u201d<\/i> attorney<br \/>\n  Cary Schulman of the Schulman &amp; Mathias law office told<br \/>\n  Foreign Policy Magazine\u2019s <i>The Cable.<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The burglars left behind silver bars, video equipment and other<br \/>\n  valuables, causing Schulman to believe that they were looking to<br \/>\n  find information on the case of former State Department inspector<br \/>\n  general investigator Aurelia Fedenisn, who leaked government<br \/>\n  documents last month. Fedenisn <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/state-department-coverup-498\/\">provided<\/a> CBS News with documents that accuse the<br \/>\n  State Department of covering up criminal investigations involving<br \/>\n  its diplomats and employees, including offenses such as illicit<br \/>\n  drug use, sexual solicitation of minors and prostitutes, and<br \/>\n  sexual harassment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The documents state that US Ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman<br \/>\n  <i>\u201cwas suspected of patronizing prostitutes in a public<br \/>\n  park.\u201d<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Schulman believes that the perpetrators of the burglary may have<br \/>\n  been politically motivated supporters of the Obama<br \/>\n  administration, but the suspects have not yet been identified.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <i>\u201cIt\u2019s clear to me that it was somebody looking for information<br \/>\n  and not money. My most high-profile case right now is the Aurelia<br \/>\n  Fedenisn case, and I can\u2019t think of any other case where someone<br \/>\n  would go to these great lengths to get our information,\u201d<\/i><br \/>\n  Schulman told The Cable.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Last month, lawyers representing Fedenisn told The Cable that the<br \/>\n  State Department tried to silence her by threatening her and her<br \/>\n  family. Law enforcement officers allegedly camped in front of her<br \/>\n  house, harassed her children, and tried to make Fedenisn<br \/>\n  incriminate herself.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Schulman believes that officials are trying to force Fedenisn to<br \/>\n  sign papers admitting that she stole the documents \u2014 a crime that<br \/>\n  the former investigator denies.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The law office does not believe the State Department authorized a<br \/>\n  break-in, but suspects that supporters of the administration may<br \/>\n  be to blame.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <i>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t professional enough,&#8221;<\/i> he said. <i>&#8220;It is<br \/>\n  possible that an Obama or Hillary supporter feels that I am<br \/>\n  unfairly going after them. And the timing of this is right after<br \/>\n  several weeks of very public media attention so it seems to me<br \/>\n  most likely that the information sought is related to that case.<br \/>\n  I don&#8217;t know for sure and I want the police to do their<br \/>\n  work.&#8221;<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Local Fox affiliate KDFW aired a surveillance video of the two<br \/>\n  suspected burglars, who can be seen walking out of the office<br \/>\n  carrying computers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki claims the agency had no<br \/>\n  involvement in the break-in.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <i>\u201cAny allegation that the Department of State authorized<br \/>\n  someone to break into Mr. Schulman\u2019s law firm is false and<br \/>\n  baseless,\u201d<\/i> she said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Republished with permission from: <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/state-department-whistleblower-burglary-798\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"State Department&#039;s Watergate? Office of high-profile whistleblower lawyer burglarized\">RT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas law office representing a State Department whistleblower was broken into and robbed during the first weekend of July. Three computers were stolen and the firm\u2019s file cabinets had been searched, but valuables were left untouched. \u201cIt\u2019s a crazy, strange and suspicious situation,\u201d attorney Cary Schulman of the Schulman &amp; Mathias law office told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}