Caroline Phoenstein said that he initially thought that the message sent to his private email address on Friday afternoon was a plan or mischief. It was discovered that he was being fired from his federal job. Once the feinstein reads email, he came to know that his work was no longer working.
As a forensic auditor for the trustees of the Department of Justice, the functions of the Finstein that helps to be bankrupt-ended on 18 July, when his employment ended in a three-guard message sent by an agency administrator.
“This is a big disadvantage to me,” Fenstein told CBS News. “I have dedicated my career to the mission of the American trustee program. I strongly believe in that mission. I get up every day to know that my work was helping professional. They were adding more good.”
Feinstein connects with dozens of other justice department employees who have been excluded this year. His firing was organized in a similar way for the end of the other justice department, through an email of the agency, which cited the “Article II” power of the administration to set the employees on fire.
“I felt that I was just one way in the dark, because the ending letter really explained to me anything,” Fenstein said.
But Phinstein’s background and its case is different from others.
Feinstein’s husband, who operates a private business, developed a controversial phone app, which helped users to track the location of federal immigration agents. The Iceblock app, which bears the monkey, bills something as “see something; Tap something”, as a “innovative, completely anonymous crowd platform, which allows users to report immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) activity with just two taps on their phone.”
Iceblock – and similar apps that inform people about the presence of ice agents – Grown in popularity This year, as the Trump administration, the arrest and uninterrupted immigrants have to increase. Administration officials have excluded those responsible for these apps, alleging that they disrupt the work of federal law enforcement.
Was promoted in the days after the Iceblock app Reporting by CNN And later by Trump Ellie and social media figure Laura Lumor, Finstein said that he informed his employers about the dangers that she and her husband were receiving from critics.
Finstein said he was fired after days, the justice department alleged that “was terminated based on the lack of candor during the internal investigation”.
“It is inhuman to the federal workforce, treating them like objects,” Kel McClanhan said, a lawyer who is representing Fenstein.
McClanhan told CBS News that he recently sees the firing wave as a official version of the “5-year tantrums”.
According to McClan, Fenstein has 20% of the company’s ownership that operates Iceblock, which her husband walks. The lawyer told CBS News that Phoenstein had a ownership stake, so that her husband could be allowed to fly to the company if she faces an emergency. The app is free, and Finstein’s husband told CNN that he does not plan to mudl.
McClanhan said that Finstein had described his relationship with business behind the app on annual disclosure forms.
The Department of Justice, citing the connection of APP and Finstein, defended it in a statement for the company.
A spokesman for the Department of Justice told CBS News, “For several weeks, the Department of Justice inquired into the activities of this former employee and found that all U Charts, Ink is a big interest.” Iceblock is an app that uses to use to capture the life of ICE officials by revealing the illegal aliens. This will not tolerate the dangers against DOJ law enforcement or law enforcement officers. “
Feinstein is the latest Dozens of Career Department of Justice Civil Servant Removed this year. In the hours after the second inauguration of President Trump, his administration began to defeat prosecutors, employees and office administrators, who were involved in prosecution against those who participated in January 6.
Firing continues in this summer, which has several high-profile terminations of administrators and prosecutors, which are. Claimed that his firing were forms of political vengeance,
Feinstein argued that his firing would increase the lack of a staff within the agency’s bankruptcy trustee audit program. He worked out of a Texas office for the American trustee program.
“They are very capable and capable of doing their work, but they are only human. So when you take out someone as an auditor as well as their own as well as their own, it is really influencing what the office can do for the program,” she said.
According to several sources who talk with CBS News, the Department of Justice is facing unusually serious shortage of employees in other major offices.
In late spring, the US Attorney Office in Columbia district had 89 staffing opening, a capacity difference that two former prosecutors said that employees could do more work and there could be more delay in processing cases. The office took over all the prosecution of January 6, and saw that several prosecutors fired early in 2025. Office has a total workforce About 700 peopleIncluding prosecutors and assistant employees.
Federal employees, including Feinstein, have the right to challenge their termination under the Merit Services Protection Board of the government. But several withdrawn employees have told CBS News that the board is jammed with a wave of new cases and is capable of moving fast on any new complaint.
Feinstein said that she loves the job and remembers the work.
“I will go back to a heartbeat,” he said.
