Democrats Want Probe Into Transfer of DOL’s Oracle Lawyer (1)

Two Democratic members of Congress called for an investigation into whether Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia retaliated against a top agency attorney for speaking out internally and accusing him of allegedly interfering with a high-profile pay discrimination lawsuit against Oracle Corp.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) called on the Department of Labor’s acting inspector general, Larry D. Turner, to “investigate reports of political inference by Secretary Scalia and Department political appointees into the Department’s litigation against Oracle” to determine whether a reassignment of the agency’s top lawyer on the West Coast, Janet Herold, amounts to “inappropriate ...