He got the cufflinks!
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Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe won back his full pension as part of a settlement with the Justice Department in a wrongful termination lawsuit filed in 2019 after he was fired by the Trump administration.
The agreement, completed on Thursday, allows the key Crossfire Hurricane figure to officially retire and receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in missed pension payments and attorney’s fees.
McCabe was fired in March 2018 by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions after DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz determined he repeatedly “lacked candor” with investigators during a criminal leaks investigation. McCabe denied any wrongdoing. The Trump-era Justice Department decided in early 2020 not to prosecute McCabe over his alleged dishonesty.
The settlement was signed by McCabe, his lawyer Murad Hussain of Arnold & Porter, and DOJ senior trial counsel Justin Sandberg.
The 11-page agreement noted that it “is neither an admission of liability by Defendants nor a concession by Plaintiff that his claims are not well-founded” and claimed that it was signed because “the Parties wish to resolve this dispute amicably, without the costs and burdens that would result from further litigation.”
The agreement said they agreed to the “recession” of McCabe’s firing and that the FBI’s records would be amended to say he was employed continuously from July 1996 until a retirement in March 2018 as FBI deputy director and a member of the Senior Executive Service.
The Justice Department agreed to provide McCabe “a payment of a lump sum representing all retirement annuity payments, including annuity supplement payments, that he would otherwise have received from the April 1, 2018 annuity commencement date until the day before he is paid his first regular monthly payment," or roughly $200,000.
The DOJ also agreed to pay $539,000 to McCabe “in full settlement and satisfaction of all attorney's fees, costs, and expenses” — a payment to be sent directly to Arnold & Porter, the firm that had defended McCabe.
The Justice Department also agreed to provide McCabe with a mounted version of his FBI badge and Senior Executive Service cufflinks.
“Politics should never play a role in the fair administration of justice and civil service personnel decisions,” McCabe said in statement. “I am deeply grateful for Arnold & Porter’s dedication to my case, and I hope that this result encourages the men and women of the FBI to continue to protect the American people by standing up for the truth and doing their jobs without fear of political retaliation.”
Says the guy who the IG says was dishonest.
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