In the latest sign of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency’s ("ICE") desperation to salvage their misguided prosecution of Cory Voorhis and to hide the corruption and incompetence of almost every federal agent involved in the investigation and prosecution, ICE attorney Robert Erbe is making another ridiculous gambit.

In a motion to Administrative Law Judge Jeremiah Cassidy, who is to hear Voorhis’ job termination appeal later this month, Erbe, whom I believe to be deeply involved in a criminal conspiracy in his role in the case, asks the judge to rule the testimony of Voorhis’ former supervisor, Tony Rouco, to be irrelevant, and to strike Rouco from Voorhis’ witness list.

In his rebuttal to Erbe, Voorhis’ attorney Tom Muther notes that:

• “no additional evidence has been submitted in the above captioned appeal nor has there been any substantive change to the charging document giving rise to any basis to disturb the Administrative Judge’s initial ruling regarding the relevance and necessity of GS Rouco as a witness.”
• “One can only conclude that the Agency’s present reversal of position on the relevance of GS
  Rouco’s testimony is motivated by similar dubious concerns, i.e. to shield GS Rouco’s egregious
  misconduct from public scrutiny.”

Muther further explains why Rouco’s testimony remains relevant t rebut charges made against Voorhis by ICE.

ICE attorney Robert Erbe is on thin ICE here, digging his own career’s grave (at least I hope so) by his thuggish tactics and his consistent attempts to keep Voorhis’ appeal process from the honest light of day.  First he tried to keep the entire hearing from being public.  Then when that failed, he’s trying to keep witnesses from testifying.  And this guy is being paid with our tax dollars.  He should be fired and disbarred for his behavior in the Voorhis case. The latest shenanigans are just the latest evidence of his being unfit to be an attorney or public servant.

You can read Erbe’s motion HERE and Muther’s response HERE.