A blistering report in Bloomberg Law tells how a woman attorney whose report of sexual misconduct ultimately prompted th forced resignation of Alaska federal judge Joshua Kindred has filed a whistleblower complaint, saying that workers in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Alaska retaliated against her after she came forward with her claims.
The whistleblower was a judicial law clerk before joining the Alaska U.S. attorney’s office, the report says. She has claimed she was denied a permanent position as a federal prosecutor after she informed supervisors in the fall of 2022 that Kindred was engaged in sexual misconduct. She made these allegations in both an interview with Bloomberg Law and in a complaint filed with the US Office of Special Counsel, an independent agency that serves as a type of ombudsman and investigates complaints.
According to the report, the woman learned that she no longer had a job in the office through an office-wide email sent Sept. 26, 2023 by her supervisor, telling everyone — including her — that her initial one-year term employment wouldn’t be extended, and it was her last day.
“My stomach dropped” when the email went out, the woman told Bloomberg Law, which added that she had recently moved back to Alaska “and was setting up her life there when she got the news.”
“I have to live with this forever,” said the woman, whom Bloomberg Law isn’t naming since she’s a survivor of sexual misconduct. “I have to live with being sexually assaulted by someone that was supposed to be my mentor. And now I have to live with this. I have to live with being ousted from my dream job and ousted from my home. And I just hope that talking about it has some impact on others.”
S. Lane Tucker, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Alaska, has not issued a statement about the report. Her office is a subdivision of the U.S. Department of Justice.
The report by Bloomberg Law is at this link.
Never, ever believe the con of protecting whistleblowers. All you do is put a target on yourself.
So we’ve heard about Judge Kindred and his flurry of sexually charged emails. Let’s see the emails of this alleged victim. There are always at least two sides to each story. She is not a child. Let’s see if the accuser invited the judge to an out of chambers cocktail party.