Douglas DePodesta, the former head of the FBI’s Chicago field office, filed a lawsuit in federal court on Monday. He claims he was forced to resign after being made a “scapegoat” for a series of failed criminal prosecutions tied to Operation “Midway Blitz.”
The cases were handled by Andrew Boutros, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. DePodesta, who led the Chicago field office for less than two years, is suing Boutros in both his personal and official capacities, as well as FBI Director Kash Patel and U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche.
In the lawsuit, DePodesta claims that Boutros pressed him to open FBI investigations into “people whose political views or affiliations conflict with President Donald Trump’s administration.” The former head of the Chicago FBI office describes an atmosphere of pressure to bring specific charges against people involved in the case known as the “Broadview Six,” protesters arrested in 2025 outside the ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) detention center in Broadview, a western suburb of Chicago.
All federal charges against the “Broadview Six” were ultimately dismissed after federal Judge April Perry demanded transcripts of grand jury proceedings. They showed that Boutros’ team had improperly influenced grand jurors and ignored dissenting votes in order to secure indictments. In his lawsuit, DePodesta claims Boutros used him to “deflect attention from his own failures.”
DePodesta, who has taken a job in the private sector, hopes to return to the FBI one day. He worked there for 24 years.
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Source: Polski.FM
