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Business Wire
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- Business
- Business Wire
Verifyle and The Oregon Association of Tax Consultants Partner to Protect Tax Consultants and Their Clients from the Growing Threat of Data Theft
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Verifyle, a leader in secure messaging, file-sharing and digital signatures, today announced a strategic partnership with The Oregon Association of Tax Consultants (OATC). OATC is an Oregon-based, IRC Section 501(c)(6) Association whose primary goal is to provide activities that continually elevate the professionalism, standards of proficiency, and integrity of our members, the licensed tax practitioner community. Verifyle has been chosen to provide ultra-secure document sharing, messaging and digital signature technology for all OATC members beginning in August of 2025. We're proud to announce another partnership! Our newest partner is OATC. Please to see another organization that cares about providing valuable benefits to their members. Share 'Our members are more aware than ever of the increasing threat from phishing and other cyber-attacks,' said Cathy Johnson, President of OATC. 'Verifyle is a great fit for OATC members because it's both extremely secure and very simple for both our members and their taxpayer clients to use.' 'In today's environment where data breaches and cyberattacks are increasingly common, tax and accounting professionals absolutely need a secure channel for sharing sensitive documents and communications with their clients,' said Jack Smith, CEO of Verifyle. 'Through our partnership with OATC, we're able to offer their members that essential peace of mind—knowing that client data remains private and protected at all times. We're honored that OATC selected Verifyle as their trusted security partner.' Unlike many other cloud-storage and cloud-sharing services, which use a single master key for encrypting and decrypting their users' data, Verifyle's Cellucrypt® technology uses password-derived keys on top of a public-key system to individually encrypt data objects, adding several additional layers of protection for their users. With the additional option to disable password reset, Verifyle becomes the most secure cloud-sharing platform available, while remaining extremely simple to use. About Verifyle Verifyle delivers ultra-secure messaging, document sharing, and digital signatures, all from a simple, single-screen interface. Verifyle was built from the ground up to be the most secure cloud-sharing solution, and to deliver improved productivity and control of information to its users. Verifyle's industry-leading, patented encryption technology gives users the highest level of security, protecting them from bulk-access vulnerability through the unique encryption of each document and thread.
The Independent
15-07-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Pam Bondi misspells DoJ ethic director's name in letter firing him
Attorney General Pam Bondi has dismissed Joseph Tirrell, the ethics director at the Department of Justice, in a letter that misspelled his name and gave no reason for his immediate termination. Tirrell, who led a team ensuring ethical adherence among government lawyers and officials, had approved pro bono legal fees for Special Counsel Jack Smith, though it is unclear if this is related to his firing. His termination is the latest in a significant departure of career prosecutors from the Justice Department during the Trump administration, following Bondi's purge of staff involved in investigations. Critics suggest Tirrell's abrupt dismissal highlights Attorney General Bondi's own ethical conflicts and raises concerns about potential hidden issues within the department. The shake-up at the Justice Department also coincides with the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigations, which has drawn criticism from supporters.
New York Times
15-07-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Dismissals at Justice Dept. Seek to Bypass Civil Service and Whistle-Blower Laws
The Justice Department is accelerating its efforts to undo decades of civil service protections intended to insulate the work of law enforcement officials from political interference, according to current and former officials, ramping up a wave of firings in recent days. A new batch of more than 20 career employees at the department and its component agencies were fired on Friday, including the attorney general's own ethics adviser, Joseph W. Tirrell. Others who were dismissed included a handful of senior officials at the U.S. Marshals Service, as well as prosecutors and support staff who once worked for Jack Smith when he was a special counsel prosecuting Donald J. Trump. On the surface, the various groups have little in common. Justice Department veterans, however, see an overarching pattern: a quickening effort by the Trump administration to ignore and eventually demolish longstanding civil service legal precedents meant to keep politics out of law enforcement work, and to give more leeway to the president's loyalists. The latest round of dismissals appears to have picked up steam after the Supreme Court last week allowed, for the time being, the administration to go forward with mass layoffs of federal workers. The decision gave the president more legal leeway to fire people en masse, at least for now. Posting on a networking site on Monday, Mr. Tirrell asserted that he had been fired without cause and shared his termination notice from Attorney General Pam Bondi. The letter misspelled his name and did not offer a specific reason for his dismissal, saying only that the Constitution authorized it. Employment law experts say such letters are at odds with decades of case law, as well as the decisions of an obscure part of the federal government called the Merit Service Protection Board. Taken together, both have stood for the principle that career civil servants can be fired only for cause. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
CNN
14-07-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Justice Department ethics chief says he was fired
The Justice Department has fired at least a dozen employees in recent weeks who at one time worked with former special counsel Jack Smith, ranging from a senior ethics official to low-level support staff, sources familiar with matter tell CNN. The firings indicate that the Trump administration is still searching high and low for any person who had a hand in the special counsel's work, which resulted in two federal indictments against Donald Trump. Both cases were dismissed once he was reelected. Trump has long said that Smith's investigations amounted to a political 'witch hunt,' and vowed to go after anyone who led or helped in that effort. Several career prosecutors on the cases have already been fired. Joseph Tirrell, who until last week was responsible for advising Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directly on ethics matters, posted a short letter advising him of his dismissal that did not provide a rationale for the termination. Tirrell had been director of the departmental ethics office since July 2023, according to DOJ. 'Until Friday evening, I was the senior ethics attorney at the Department of Justice responsible for advising the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General directly on federal employee ethics,' Tirrell wrote on LinkedIn. 'I was also responsible for the day-to-day operations of the ethics program across the Department.' He added: 'My public service is not over, and my career as a Federal civil servant is not finished. I took the oath at 18 as a Midshipman to 'support and defend the Constitution of the United States'… That oath did not come with the caveat that I need only support the Constitution when it is easy or convenient.' The Justice Department and Tirrell have not responded to CNN's requests for comment.
CNN
14-07-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Justice Department ethics chief says he was fired
The Justice Department has fired at least a dozen employees in recent weeks who at one time worked with former special counsel Jack Smith, ranging from a senior ethics official to low-level support staff, sources familiar with matter tell CNN. The firings indicate that the Trump administration is still searching high and low for any person who had a hand in the special counsel's work, which resulted in two federal indictments against Donald Trump. Both cases were dismissed once he was reelected. Trump has long said that Smith's investigations amounted to a political 'witch hunt,' and vowed to go after anyone who led or helped in that effort. Several career prosecutors on the cases have already been fired. Joseph Tirrell, who until last week was responsible for advising Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directly on ethics matters, posted a short letter advising him of his dismissal that did not provide a rationale for the termination. Tirrell had been director of the departmental ethics office since July 2023, according to DOJ. 'Until Friday evening, I was the senior ethics attorney at the Department of Justice responsible for advising the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General directly on federal employee ethics,' Tirrell wrote on LinkedIn. 'I was also responsible for the day-to-day operations of the ethics program across the Department.' He added: 'My public service is not over, and my career as a Federal civil servant is not finished. I took the oath at 18 as a Midshipman to 'support and defend the Constitution of the United States'… That oath did not come with the caveat that I need only support the Constitution when it is easy or convenient.' The Justice Department and Tirrell have not responded to CNN's requests for comment.
