Secrets of the Oracle Prosecution
A letter reveals the animus behind a dubious labor lawsuit. By
The Oracle headquarters in Redwood City, Calif. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
We’ve often criticized the Labor Department’s lawsuit launched in the waning days of the Obama Administration against Oracle for discriminating against women and minorities. But it turns out the prosecution was even worse than we thought and there’s a lesson here about federal misuse of race and gender as enforcement cudgels.
The truth emerged this month in a letter from Labor Deputy Assistant Secretary Joe Wheeler to Congress responding to a whistleblower complaint by regional solicitor