Department of Justice disagrees with MN OLPR and opens Investigation!

The Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility dismissed PAACLA Director Jessica Anlauf's 600+ complaint providing a laughable disposition, even claiming that the Director was unable to provide newly discovered evidence as well as previously submitted evidence (a violation of their own Rules on Lawyers Professional Responsibility), and claiming that the Director had failed to meet the threshold requiring an investigation. That threshold consists of merely alleging conduct (whether the OLPR believes it will be proven true or not), which would be a violation of the Rules. The PAACLA Director clearly met that threshold when she made among 59 other allegations, the allegation that one of the six attorneys named in the complaint, retaliated against her for filing a complaint with the OLPR back in 2014, and had also engaged in fraudulent activity in effort to force the Director to pay the attorney's fees for the Director's having filed that complaint with the OLPR (clearly a violation of Rule 21 on immunity). [That 600+ page complaint is still under appeal with the Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board, and is expected to continue to be mishandled by the LPRB, and eventually needing to be addressed by the MN Supreme Court.] However, in the meantime, the Federal Department of Justice Disciplinary Counsel has disagreed with the OLPR, clearly acknowledging that the PAACLA Director, Jessica Anlauf, had indeed met the threshold for review under the DOJ Disciplinary Counsel standards which mirror that of the OLPR, and actually provide for a much more narrow possibility for rule violations. The highest legal authority in the United States, the Department of Justice, has in fact opened an investigation into the 600+ page complaint involving 6 attorneys, including allegations of public corruption involving the Isanti County Attorney's office and the Isanti county Attorney himself: Jeffrey Edblad. PAACLA continues to update the MN Legislative Auditor and request that the auditor initiate investigation proceeding against the MN Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility for their clear violations of public policy and abuse of office. The OLPR's failure to adhere to the Rules as mandated by the MN Supreme Court places all members of the public in jeopardy and should be taken extremely seriously, investigated and actions set forth to ensure the OLPR no longer abuses their positions.