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Immigrant shelter whistleblower asking DOJ to investigate 'disturbing pattern' at taxpayer-funded hotels
Fox News ^ | June 11, 2025 | Peter Pinedo

Posted on 06/12/2025 6:21:43 PM PDT by lowbridge

A former immigrant shelter director in Massachusetts is petitioning Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into the "disturbing pattern" of criminal activity, sexual assaults and financial abuse that he says is widespread in the state-run migrant shelter system.

Jon Fetherston, a former director of an immigrant shelter in Marlborough, Massachusetts, first blew the whistle about the widespread abuse in the shelter system after he discovered a Haitian migrant named Ronald Joseph, who was living in his shelter, had repeatedly raped and impregnated his 13-year-old daughter. 

Fetherston previously told Fox News Digital that as soon as Joseph heard he was losing custody of his daughter, he "reached across the table and grabbed me and got angry with me and started cursing and yelling and screaming and swinging at me because he realized what was happening."

However, instead of being arrested immediately, Fetherston was directed to order Joseph a Lyft ride to another shelter in Worcester County. Joseph was not arrested until eight months in February.  

Though this case was particularly egregious, Fetherston said that "there is a lot of undocumented violence that goes on" and that rape, domestic violence, sex trafficking, drug dealing and other crimes are so commonplace in the Massachusetts shelter system that many incidents simply fall through the cracks.

Fetherston said, "The entire experience has shaken me to my core."  

In a letter sent to Bondi on Monday, Fetherston said that this was "not an isolated incident" but despite his raising the alarm, "there has been a deliberate wall of silence. No reforms. No accountability. Just more spin, stonewalling, and bureaucratic excuses."

"This is a crisis — one that requires federal action now," he said.

Fetherston is now asking Bondi to launch a full investigation into criminal activity

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: bidencrimefamily; doxxing; illegalimmigration; immigration; jonfetherston; marlborough; massachusetts; pambondi

1 posted on 06/12/2025 6:21:43 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

If some guy looks cross-eyed at an American woman, it’s a harassment complaint that will likely get prosecuted. Foreign guys can rape foreign women, including their daughters, and its no problem. From the Leftist POV, that’s why they keep abortion legal.


2 posted on 06/12/2025 6:35:20 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: lowbridge
The hotel situation is really bad. Had a car breakdown near San Bernadino and had to walk to the nearest motel for the night.

Really bad people.

Next day I found out that the place was bought out for the homeless by the State of California

3 posted on 06/12/2025 7:43:37 PM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: rdcbn1

Unless you are destitute, you should’ve taken Uber/Lyft. Geez.


4 posted on 06/12/2025 8:32:17 PM PDT by 82nd Bragger (Count to four except when in a helicopter)
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To: 82nd Bragger
My phone was dead and it was in the middle of the night. Not a lot of options

Bad side of town and the repair shop looked like a walled compound in Afghansitan - 18 ft walls with concertina wire on the top.

Tow truck dropped the truck at the gate and beat feet.

Took an uber back the next morning. The guys at the shop were kind of surprised that made it without getting robbed or mugged

It was an adventure but far from my worst.

5 posted on 06/12/2025 8:42:35 PM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: lowbridge

DUH!


6 posted on 06/13/2025 4:12:33 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience..H)
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To: lowbridge

” ... petitioning Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice to launch an investigation ... “

That’s where I stopped reading. Don’t these people know that AG Barbie is a hologram and not a sentient being?


7 posted on 06/13/2025 4:57:04 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: lowbridge

Meanwhile, psyop Bannon’s at it again this morning. Claiming there are only 20 million illegals in the country and only 10 million that came in under Biden. Not calling it amnesty, but calling for amnesty of all but the last 10 million of the approximately 60 million here.


8 posted on 06/13/2025 7:28:38 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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