There They Go Again II

You've got to hand it to the U.S. Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice (NIJ).
DOJ NIJ awarded a no-bid contract to an expert on Officer Involved Domestic Violence (OIDV), Dr. PHILLIP MATTHEW STINSON, Sr., Ph.D., J.D., an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, valued at $261,480 of federal funds, matched by $133,899 of BGSU funds.
The resulting study was called "Police Integrity Lost: A study of law enforcement officers arrested."
Prof. STINSON's criminology research work has appeared in the International Association of Police Chiefs' journal, Police Chief Magazine.
In 2002, PHILLIP MATTHEW STINSON, SR., a former New Hampshire police officer who was then licensed as an attorney since 1993, pled guilty and was convicted of defrauding the parents of Eastern Pennsylvania special needs students of more than $33,000, and was incarcerated in prison for it.
STINSON, father of a special needs son, abused his son's status to win clients, talking about his son on his sophisticated website. Then STINSON defrauded the parents, stealing their money, including money awarded by courts for the children's tuition. STINSON also kited checks and wrote bad checks, including one to his former office manager.
STINSON pled guilty to theft in September 2002, blaming his thievery on sleep deprivation and the pressures of caring for his special needs son. He obtained advanced degrees after his incarceration.
DOJ NIJ has not responded to my query, as to whether it was aware, in awarding the no-bid contract, that Prof. STINSON was convicted of defrauding the parents of Pennsylvania special needs students and sentenced to 9-33 months in prison, placed on three years probation and ordered to perform 500 hours of community service.
Bowling Green State University Prof. PHILLIP MATTHEW STINSON, SR. is the "Academic Honesty Chair" for BGSU and reportedly advised some 51 BGSU students this semester, which ends tomorrow. BGSU's spokesman told me today that Prof. STINSON was "completely candid" with BGSU about his conviction when he was hired to teach there. Rehabilitation is commendable. It's the American way.
But DOJ NIJ is not talking at all about its no-bid contract with STINSON, or what it knew or when it knew it.
Efforts to obtain comment from DOJ were unavailing, both about the STINSON contract and about DOJ's inept and nonexistent response to OIDV and civil rights violations in our St. Johns County Sheriff's Department, whose actions were portrayed in The New York Times, PBS Frontline and NBC News Dateline.
Justice for Michelle O'Connell.
Attorney General ERIC HOLDER: You have the right to remain silent, but we wish you wouldn't. Tell your press officer to respond to our inquiries. Do your job, without fear or favor. Call me now, please.
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998