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Is the Trump Justice Department covering up old criminal activity on the part of Senator Mark Warner?
From 2001-2005, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia John Brownlee investigated the Battle Creek Landfill near Luray, Virginia, that was owned by Marvin Bush and protected by Governor Mark Warner. Brownlee [allegedly had] evidence of felonies committed by then Governor Mark Warner, and in March of 2005, target letters went out.
But Richard Cullen, the current counselor to Governor Glenn Youngkin, who arranged the appointments of now fired Erik Siebert (his son-in-law) and Todd Gilbert (his good friend) as U.S. Attorneys in Virginia, appears to have masterminded a cover up for Warner and his partner in crime, Marvin Bush, brother of then-President George W. Bush, who Cullen was working for. A deal was cut and everything was buried.
All these years later, in light of the purported transparency of the Bondi Justice Department, I filed a FOIA request for the Bush-Warner criminal files.
On September 12, 2025, a FOIA staffer wrote that “The records you seek require a search in one or more field offices and potentially involves voluminous records and/or requires consultation with another agency/component with a substantial interest in the subject-matter and therefore falls within “unusual circumstances.”
On November 21, 2025, a longtime Justice Department attorney wrote “I am, in fact, the attorney to whom your request was assigned from the start. I am actively working on your request again, now that the government shutdown has ended. I will be in contact with you, on behalf of the FOIA/Privacy Act Staff of EOUSA, as soon as we have completed processing your request. I anticipate that that will be in a relatively short time, e.g., within a few weeks.”
That same day, in order to speed up the release of at least some of the files before Governor Youngkin leaves office in January, I wrote to a slew of powerful people.
The very next business day, on November 24, the FOIA staffer wrote “A search for records located in the United States Attorney’s Office(s) for the Western District of Virginia yielded no records responsive to your request. The search was careful and thorough…. This is the final action on this above-numbered request.”
Does this sound like a cover-up?
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