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OAN Commentary by: Theodore R. Malloch and Nadia Nedzel
Thursday, March 19, 2026
There is something instructive about the Left’s current obsession with Brad Bondi, a superb and much lauded white-collar defense lawyer whose clients keep prevailing in federal courtrooms.
For years, progressive legal activists celebrated aggressive DOJ prosecutions as the highest expression of institutional integrity. Now that a changed Supreme Court, a new administration, and rigorous defense advocacy have combined to unwind several of those prosecutions, those same activists and so-called journalists have decided that the outcomes — not the original overreach that produced them — are the real scandal.
Enter devious and corrupt Senator Adam Schiff (D, CA), who in December 2025 hyped a letter he wrote demanding documents from the DOJ and darkly citing a pattern of outcomes he deemed suspicious. Mr. Schiff is a well-known political operative, but his letter is a document of insinuation rather than investigation. It identifies no specific ethical violation, cites no evidence of improper communication, and relies entirely on the fact that a great lawyer with a long track record keeps on winning.
A former DOJ pardon attorney who was dismissed from her position and subsequently sued the department, has made Brad Bondi a centerpiece of her social media commentary. She presents herself as a disinterested watchdog. She is, more accurately, a terminated employee litigating against the agency whose decisions she purports to scrutinize. Her videos carefully avoid specific factual claims that could be tested, and traffic instead in the language of suspicion: “I don’t know of any lawyer anywhere who has this type of track record.” She must not encounter too many winners in her life. Nonetheless, the implication is left to the viewer, which is precisely the point of her smear. Innuendo requires no evidence and carries no accountability.
The biased media’s role in amplifying these insinuations deserves scrutiny of its own. Readers who encounter “DOJ Drops Another Case Against Client of AG’s Brother” and do not read to the fourteenth paragraph explaining why the case was dismissed on the merits are meant to draw a conclusion the evidence does not support.
Against this record stands Brad Bondi’s three-decade career: counsel to commissioners at the Securities and Exchange Commission; Deputy General Counsel to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission; Special Assistant United States Attorney; Global Chair of the investigations and white collar practice at a top tier law firm; recognized for two decades by Super Lawyers, Law360, and The National Law Journal; adjunct professor; top-ranked advocate who the media has called a “powerhouse litigator.”
These are not the credentials of a man whose success requires explaining by reference to family. And yet, the allegation is that Mr. Bondi — a partner and global co-chair of the investigations and white-collar defense practice at one of the country’s most prestigious law firms — has somehow benefited improperly from his sister Pam’s tenure as Attorney General.
That allegation is wrong — Brad has succeeded on his own merits. As Schiff and others well know, Brad Bondi is one of the top lawyers in America — full stop. I would know, as he was my lawyer.
Brad successfully represented me (Ted Malloch) in connection with the Mueller witch hunt. I needed a tough, powerhouse litigator to go toe-to-toe with Robert Mueller’s aggressive henchman, and Brad was perfect. He came highly recommended by well-respected Washingtonians on both sides of the aisle and was described as a non-political advocate. Through his spectacular advocacy, Brad sparred and ultimately won against Mueller’s minions. I have worked with many great lawyers, and I can attest firsthand that Brad is a brilliant defense lawyer who stands out as the best in white collar defense.
But you don’t have to take my word for it — Brad Bondi has been recognized as a winning attorney since long before the current administration. Indeed, his career accomplishments have earned him the National Law Journal’s Trailblazer Award in 2020 and an unprecedented three National MVPs of the Year by Law360 for White Collar Defense in 2019, 2021, and 2022 — two of them awarded during the Biden administration. Yes, you read that correctly — Brad was the National MVP for white collar in two of the four years of the Biden DOJ. On top of his long lists of accolades, courtroom victories, and professional accomplishments, Brad also has published six academic peer-journal articles and has taught law courses at Yale, Harvard, Georgetown, and George Mason. He also was reported to be on the short list for SEC Chairman.
“I have worked with Brad Bondi for 18 years, and winning isn’t something new or anomalous for him. He is widely regarded as one of the best lawyers in the country who has been winning for clients for his entire professional career,” said JW Verret, a professor at George Mason University Law School and expert witness.
The false narrative about Brad Bondi is also missing many other key and undeniable facts, including the most obvious: his countless victories in the courtroom. In a case for Deel Inc. last year, a federal judge in the Southern District of Florida agreed with Brad’s arguments and dismissed a $10 billion RICO class action. In another case in Delaware Chancery Court, Brad and his team defeated an attempt to block a $1 billion merger for Digital World Acquisition Corp., crafting a strategy dubbed “elegant” in news coverage by Bloomberg. The American Lawyer mentioned this victory and other Brad wins more than a half of dozen times within the last few years.
Against that record of success before impartial judges, critics point to a few case dismissals and a DOJ intervention in a maritime law case as a purportedly “troubling pattern.” What they conspicuously cannot point to is a single piece of evidence that the Attorney General had a hand in any of them. Pam Bondi has been and remains a stellar Attorney General even under hostile fire. The Department of Justice, however, has stated explicitly and on the record that Attorney General Bondi played no role in any of the relevant decisions brought up. That should end the innuendos then and there.
Brad and his team successfully defended two respected real estate developers, Sid Chakraverty and Vic Alston, in support of their work to help revitalize the declining City of St. Louis. Brad’s team has represented the developers for years, long before President Trump’s recent election. Like so many cities in the country, the Mayor and city leadership in St. Louis sought to prioritize DEI initiatives over citizen needs. Overzealous prosecutors in St. Louis joined in and charged the developers for purportedly violating the unconstitutional DEI policies. In response, Brad and his team did the right thing: they fought back and filed carefully researched and well-crafted motions identifying constitutional flaws in the prosecutors’ case. The City recognized its perilous legal position, and just two days after Brad’s team filed their motions, the City suspended the DEI program. Seeing the handwriting on the wall and likelihood of Brad’s success in court, the independent local U.S. Attorney dismissed the matter. No innuendo, just good lawyering.
Brad brought those same lawyering skills to bear in defense of Carolina Amesty, who he has represented since 2024. In her case, an outgoing Biden-appointed U.S. Attorney charged a 30-year-old former Florida State representative and up-and-coming Republican leader just days before President Trump took office in January 2025, and without any supporting indictment from a grand jury. The complaint targeted Ms. Amesty’s work for local Christian church and school organizations and COVID-relief loans for which those organizations never have missed a single payment. After eight months of tireless work by Brad and his team, production of more than 500 pages of exculpatory material, and multiple in-person meetings with prosecutors identifying the fatal flaws in the baseless complaint, the government failed to assemble necessary evidence to pursue an indictment. An independent judge denied prosecutors’ request for an extension to obtain an indictment and dismissed the action once prosecutors determined they could not proceed with a case. Again, any innuendo here is baseless.
With respect to President Trump’s decision to pardon Trevor Milton, Milton himself said publicly that neither Bondi was involved. DOJ has said the AG wasn’t involved. Brad Bondi has said he wasn’t involved. There is not a scintilla of evidence Brad Bondi was involved. And yet despite Bondi representing Milton back in 2021 (during the Biden administration), Shifty Schiff and the former pardon attorney continue to hurl baseless allegations against Brad Bondi. These people have no decency and no evidence.
DOJ’s recent decision to join an action initiated by Brad is no different. This past fall, Brad and his team brought a federal court challenge against a controversial Hawaii state tax on cruise fares for vacationers and tourists. Through skillfully crafted briefing, Brad and his team convinced the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to halt implementation of the taxes on cruise fares in a decision that received national media attention. To make that holding, the Ninth Circuit had to conclude that Brad’s legal position was substantially likely to prevail on the merits. Concerned by Hawaii’s attempt to encroach on federal jurisdiction, DOJ joined the case, but without any involvement of the Attorney General. DOJ prosecutors recognized the importance of the case irrespective of Brad’s involvement, as Schiff and others can see clearly.
Brad Bondi won his cases because his cases deserved to be won. The prosecutors and judges who dismissed them said so. Efforts by Schiff and others to attack these cases should be concerning to those who prioritize the rule of law. Substantial work has gone into efforts to undo the sweeping weaponization of the DOJ under the Biden administration. These attempts by Schiff to double down on those past weaponization tactics – now shown through these baseless attacks on Brad Bondi – stand as a sobering preview of what is to come should the left regain control of the DOJ.
Politics has no place in the law. Thankfully, we have advocates like Brad Bondi who continue to leverage their talent in defense of first principles and the integrity of the legal system. We should stand with him. The rule of law requires that governmental powers be limited, and it requires an underlying premise of a civil association, i.e. equality before the law. No group should be either favored or disfavored by the law or lawmakers. In other words, politics does not have a place in the law. In order to have continued faith in our legal system, We The People must excoriate any attempt by any political party to bring politics into play in our judicial system.
(Views expressed by guest commentators may not reflect the views of OAN or its affiliates.)
Theodore Roosevelt Malloch scholar-diplomat-strategist is a former Yale and Oxford professor and author of nineteen books, including Doing Virtuous Business and the PBS documentary made based on it. Nadia Nedzel is a law professor known internationally for her expertise on the rule of law, having written two books and ten articles on the topic and lectured on it around the world. She is currently working on an intellectual biography of American jurist Lon Fuller.
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