The head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division boarded a flight on Wednesday and left Washington with a promise: a major indictment lands Thursday. She did not say whose.
🚨 Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon teases a "major indictment" coming tomorrow from the DOJ.
Dhillon posted the message herself on Wednesday evening, from the airport, on her way to Utah on Justice Department business: "DCA TO SLC FOR DOJ — another day. Another flight in pursuit of justice. Tune in tomorrow for a major indictment." The post drew more than 260,000 views within hours.
She named no target, no case and no court, and offered no follow-up hints. As of Thursday morning, the indictment had not yet been announced, and the Justice Department had not added any detail to her tease.
"Tune in tomorrow for a major indictment."
The tease lands in the middle of one of the busiest stretches of Dhillon's tenure. Her division spent the same week announcing findings that Ohio State University's medical school discriminated against white and Asian applicants, opening a federal investigation into conditions at Washington, D.C.'s jails dating back to 2021, and settling with Instacart, which agreed to pay $5 million after investigators found it favored foreign visa workers over American applicants.
A public promise of a "major indictment," made a day in advance by the official whose division would bring it, is unusual — indictments are normally announced when they are unsealed, not trailed from an airport the night before. Whoever the target is, Dhillon has ensured the whole country will be watching when the name lands.