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Stories are now starting to emerge of the kinds of things U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose did to rile up four top staffers enough that they voluntarily demoted themselves to protest Paulose’s “highly dictatorial style” of managing. The Star Tribune (in Minneapolis-St. Paul) reports that:

Paulose ordered that an internal memo be prepared for high-ranking Justice Department officials who would be coming to Minneapolis from Washington to highlight the office’s high-profile cases, the attorneys said.

Paulose instructed the head of the narcotics section, Andy Dunne, to state in the memo that prosecutors had won convictions that ended drug dealing by St. Paul’s Latin Kings gang, they said.

Dunne was told by Paulose to say that the Latin Kings were the biggest gang in St. Paul and that the office’s recent convictions would stop the so-called Latin King Nation, the attorneys said.

But Dunne told Paulose he couldn’t abide by the request, one of the attorneys said, and when he refused, Dunne was forced to give up his position as chief of the narcotics section. Dunne would not comment Friday.

So they were not, in fact, voluntary demotions? Or voluntary only in the sense that Paulose’s subordinates voluntarily decided not to cooperate with fabricating untruths for the head office?