Attorney General Pam Bondi terminated the head of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) ethics division, according to a letter posted to social media by the fired official.
“Pursuant to Article II of the United States Constitution and the laws of the United States, your employment with the Department of Justice is hereby terminated, and you are removed from federal service effective immediately,” the letter states.
The notice further states that Tirrell has the right to appeal the government’s decision through the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board within 30 days.
“Until Friday evening, I was the senior ethics attorney at the Department of Justice responsible for advising the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General directly on federal employee ethics,” Tirrell wrote in his LinkedIn post. “I was also responsible for the day-to-day operations of the ethics program across the Department.”
Tirrell said that his “public service is not over,” and that his “career as a Federal civil servant is not finished.”
“I look forward to finding ways to continue in my personal calling of service to my country. I encouraged anyone who is reading this to do the same,” he wrote.
His post outlined his resume in the federal government, starting with his time as a Naval officer before he joined the FBI in 2006.
It also “provides advice and training directly to employees in the Department’s Senior Management Offices, the Justice Management Division, the Office of Public Affairs, the Office of the Federal Detention Trustee, the Office of Dispute Resolution, and the Office of Tribal Justice, and supervises the ethics programs in the remaining Department components,” the website says.
The termination comes in the midst of a tumultuous time in the DOJ and the FBI. President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post last weekend not to “waste time” on his administration’s reviews of files related to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
A memo released by the DOJ and FBI last week said officials found no evidence that the disgraced former financier was blackmailing people or kept a “client list.” The memo also reiterated that he died via suicide in a New York City jail in August 2019, which has long been disputed by his brother, Mark Epstein.
The Epoch Times contacted the Justice Department for comment on Tuesday.