Former FBI agent Peter Strzok reaches $1.2 million settlement with DOJ: Lawyers

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Source: ABC

Former FBI agent Pete Strzok, who was fired from the bureau in 2018 after his disparaging text messages about Donald Trump were made public, has reached a settlement with the Justice Department over his claims that his privacy rights were violated, according to his lawyers.

According to Strzok’s lawyers, the U.S. government has agreed to pay Strzok $1.2 million.

In his 2019 lawsuit, Strzok and his lawyers argued that the FBI and DOJ unlawfully disclosed his private text messages disparaging Trump before and after the 2016 presidential election -- including the time frame during which Strzok helped lead the agency's investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server and Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Trump, who made Strzok a frequent target on social media, argued that Strzok's political bias tainted the early stages of the Russia investigation.



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[pat_k]

1. Cool (nt)

[wordstroken]

2. Excellent!

He was put through mental hell.

[Kali]

3. diaper donald is going to have

(another) sad.

[enough]

4. I hope there's something in the agreement about paying his legal fees.

[Attilatheblond]

5. Didn't Pete Strzok, at FBI Counter INTEL, bust up a Putin Spy ring out of Canada operating in the US?

Think, along the lines of the TV show The Americans. Yeah Russia and that sort of well hidden spy network in real life. Putin was a grand poohba in Russian Intel. So, Pete Strzok cost Putin a good deal of assets and probably. Putin holds grudges. Trump took orders from Putin and did much to curry favor.

Glad to see Mr. Strzok is getting some retribution for the way he was treated, at Putin's behest.

[cynical_idealist]

9. I wished the Americans show made some hint about a "real estate developer"

as a prospect

[FakeNoose]

6. $1.2 million should have come straight out of Chump's pocket

But I'm happy that Peter Strzok is finally compensated for the shabby treatment he received form Chump's administration.

[orthoclad]

16. Maybe he can use that money to sue Trump.

[rainin]

7. Doesn't seem like near enough

Hopefully, this is the beginning of a series of lawsuits to compensate him for what he went through. Not only should he be compensated for all expenses, past, current, and future, he should be compensated for reputational damage. No idea how to calculate the cost to him, but he was wronged by bad actors and somehow, he should be made whole. I'm thinking in the 10s of millions.

[Lulu KC]

8. I thought the same thing

I wonder if they restored his pension. Maybe from seeing so many big numbers recently in connection to money that has and has not been donated to campaigns, this sounds like peanuts.

[panfluteman]

10. Peter Strzok Was Our Number One Russian Spy Hunter. That's Why Putin Wanted Him Taken Out.

And Donnie Cheetolini was only too happy to do Putin's bidding. Donald Trump is the biggest spy and traitor that America has ever had.

[wolfie001]

11. Clown donald the dump failed again

[moniss]

12. Yes and the GQP/MAGA clowns in Congress

have the audacity to whine that the DOJ is being weaponized. When you combine this case, Michael Cohen being thrown back in jail, Barr misrepresenting the Mueller report, Barr stepping in to water down any sentence for Stone, the DOJ policies for family separations aka kidnapping/child abuse/endangerment and the post election DOJ actions of Clark etc. it is pretty clear who the people "weaponizing" DOJ have been.

[travelingthrulife]

13. So we get to pay for what Trump did to him

Works for The Donald!

Glad he got an award, just wish it would come out of the right person's hide instead of our own.

[Martin68]

14. Proof that the Trump administration weaponized the Justice Department.

[samnsara]

15. peanuts! he should have got way more...

...they effed him over good..