As recently as November 2023, a federal judge kept the case alive in the face of DISH's motion for a judgment on the pleadings.
On December 15, 2023, less than one month after the federal court refused to dismiss the DOJ's suit, one of DISH's founders, Charlie Ergen, along with his wife, Candy, donated a total of $113,200 to keep Biden in the White Houseand, inevitably, to keep his currently constituted Department of Justice in power.
On January 10, 2024, only three-and-a-half weeks after Ergen sent his money to Biden, and while the fraud suit was still pending, DISH received $50 million in taxpayer funds when the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced an $80 million round of five grants.
A mere two days after the $50 million grant, the attorney for Vermont Telephone, which had triggered the DOJ's initial action against DISH, complained that the DOJ was putting pressure on Vermont Telephone to enter into "An unethical settlement" or it would dismiss the suit: The move to dismiss the case scrapped plans to depose the Ergens about their knowledge of the allegedly fraudulent scheme, prompting Vermont Telephone's attorneys to accuse the Justice Department of political interference.
"With the upcoming election, this case looks like just the latest example of the DOJ's two-tiered justice system under which the well-heeled, politically connected are treated one way, while everyone else is treated differently." The last item in this chronology is that on March 8, the DOJ moved to dismiss the case.
It could just be that the case has been kicking about for years so that the DOJ decided it was time to unload it because it was hogging resources without any discernable benefit to the American people.
We've long known that Garland's DOJ is driven by politics, not principle.
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