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SPLC Taps Lawyer Who Interfered in Smollett Case to Investigate Workplace-Harassment Allegations
National Review ^ | March 22, 2019 | Jack Crowe

Posted on 03/29/2019 5:44:45 AM PDT by SJackson

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has hired Tina Tchen, a former Obama staffer who recently tried to intervene in the Jussie Smollett hate-crime-hoax case on the actor’s behalf, to conduct a review of workplace-harassment allegations in the wake of co-founder Morris Dees’s firing.

Last Thursday, the SPLC announced Dees’s dismissal for unspecified violations of company policy and said that Tchen, who served as chief of staff to Michelle Obama and now runs a firm focused on “workplace cultural compliance,” would conduct a “comprehensive assessment of our internal climate and workplace practices.”

That announcement came one day after the Chicago Sun Times obtained communications between Tchen and Cook County state’s attorney Kim Foxx in which Tchen asked Foxx to persuade Chicago Police Department superintendent Eddie Johnson to turn the investigation of Smollett’s case over to the FBI.

Tchen reportedly made the request, which Johnson refused to comply with, at the behest of one of Smollett’s relatives.

In an email sent just two days after Smollett falsely claimed he was jumped by a pair of Trump-supporting bigots, Foxx reached out to Tchen to let her know that she had contacted Johnson, as the Obama alumnus had previously requested.

“Spoke to Superintendent Johnson. I convinced him to reach out to FBI to ask that they take over the investigation,” Foxx wrote.

“OMG this would be a huge victory,” Tchen wrote in response to a text message from Foxx containing the same information as was included in the email.

“I make no guarantees,” Foxx responded, “but I’m trying.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; cookcounty; georgesoros; illinois; jussiesmollett; kimfoxx; michelleobama; rahmemanuel; smollett; splc; tchen; tinatchen

1 posted on 03/29/2019 5:44:45 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson
She'll be able to fix things. And as a key player in the Smollet case, he conclusions will be credible. Won't they?

Tina Tchen to the Rescue-High-powered Obama fixer pulls strings for hoaxster Jussie Smollett.

2 posted on 03/29/2019 5:50:48 AM PDT by SJackson (Pilgrims, doing the jobs Americans won'tdo)
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To: SJackson

Workplace cultural compliance... LOL!!! A good friend had his career ended recently because of Loy-has like that one who represented Moochele! This stuff has to end.


3 posted on 03/29/2019 5:51:51 AM PDT by MGunny
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To: SJackson

I guess when you need a good cover up, you should hire the best. I mean seriously, the ruling elites don’t even bother to pretend to deal above board


4 posted on 03/29/2019 6:05:05 AM PDT by j.havenfarm ( 2,000 posts as of 1/16/19. A FReeper since 2000; never shutting up!)
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To: SJackson

Organizational infiltration skills learned from the Mafia.


5 posted on 03/29/2019 6:23:26 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: j.havenfarm
... seriously, the ruling elites don’t even bother to pretend to deal above board.

The mask is off... you're right they don't even bother to pretend anymore.

6 posted on 03/29/2019 7:22:43 AM PDT by GOPJ (FBI: Did the Southern Poverty Law Center assist with organizing(and funding) Charlottesville?)
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To: SJackson

Hate Group hires Dishonest and Corrupt lawyer to polish image.

ps. “workplace cultural compliance,” Any idea WTF this means in english???


7 posted on 03/29/2019 7:41:01 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: SJackson

Fox meet hen house.

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8 posted on 03/29/2019 7:41:53 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending it is.)
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To: j.havenfarm

“the ruling elites don’t even bother to pretend to deal above board”

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2019/03/28/youre-a-sucker-for-not-believing-that-the-system-is-rigged-n2543819

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9 posted on 03/29/2019 7:43:49 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending it is.)
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To: SJackson

SPLC. Well, of course, they did.


10 posted on 03/29/2019 7:56:53 AM PDT by bgill (when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
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To: SJackson

Soros...


11 posted on 03/29/2019 8:01:09 AM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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The FIX IS IN for Obama staff who need a high paying job. One leftist organization loses a member, the Obama machine provides another. Sort of a Soros employment service run by OBIE AND CRIMINAL GANG. Soros funded staffers and friends are spread around the country in MARXIST, socialist, liberal left organizations like the invading SEED PODS OF INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, only more dangerous.


12 posted on 03/29/2019 6:24:03 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks SJackson.

13 posted on 03/31/2019 11:21:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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