Talk:Trevor N. McFadden

Corrupt
This week's decision to let a terrorist take a vacation to another country--and during a pandemic--is nothing short of corruption.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/05/politics/capitol-riot-mexican-vacation/index.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.197.149.12 (talk) 14:01, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

McFadden has now downgraded the sentence for a Jan 6th violent insurrectionist.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/27/judge-rejects-terrorism-sentencing-jan-6-00084592 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.165.220.12 (talk) 23:09, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

FGM Case
Originally, Judge McFadden’s page identified him as “bringing the first prosecution under the federal FGM statute.” The source cited for this fact stated that Judge McFadden served as an assistant AG at the DOJ during this prosecution, but did not say he “brought” this case or “prosecuted” this case or identified any supervisory role at the DOJ and fu45(33 failed to identify any role he played individually. I have looked at articles about Mr. McFadden and reviewed all national and local articles about the FGM case and found zero references to Mr. McFadden. His name does not appear on a single court filing. According to the material cited, Mr. McFadden was not even with the Department of Justice when the case was filed in April 2017. During that time he was still working at Baker McKenzie according to the source material. The FGM case was filed by attorneys in the US Attorney’s office for the eastern district of Michigan in and investigated by agents in the FBI In 2015-2017 while Mr. McFadden was still in private practice.

Therefore, it seemed appropriate to remove the reference from this entry giving Judge McFadden credit for prosecuting the first case under the federal FGM statute. Until source material is identified showing any supervisory role at the DOJ in subsequent time periods, is seems prudent to remove any reference to the FGM case from Judge McFadden’s entry altogether. Jdgriffioen (talk) 14:50, 27 September 2019 (UTC)


 * The source currently in the article says "Under McFadden’s leadership, the Department of Justice has brought the Nation's first prosecution under the federal female genital mutilation statute..." But if there's not anything else on the matter out there on the interwebs, it's probably not a notable enough aspect of his biography to include here so I'm fine removing it. Marquardtika (talk) 15:07, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. It seems like the original entry author was extrapolating from that source quote that Mr. McFadden had some supervisory role over the case and further extrapolated that this meant he “brought” or “prosecuted” the case himself. That would have been impossible, as he was still in private practice during the time the case was investigated and filed. While he did work at the DOJ while the case still active, I have been able to find 0 references or sources that show him to have any involvement in the case whatsoever beyond his general role at the DOJ. Jdgriffioen (talk) 15:13, 27 September 2019 (UTC)