Federal prosecutors failing to win indictments is historically highly unusual, Rasch said, considering the advantages the federal government usually enjoys. He added that trying to maximize charges by stacking crimes in these recent justice department high-profile cases in DC is “abusive”. The justice department disputed the Times’s account of Singh’s comments, saying: “Aakash never said ‘simply impanel new grand juries’. Rasch said that a 2017 law school graduate being promoted to such a high-level political appointment at the justice department is unusual. “Why did someone who threw a sandwich get fired [from the justice department] while someone convicted of drunk driving get promoted?”