The Atlantic I quit the DOJ because I no longer wanted to participate in a system this permissive. 10:29 AM ET Share About the author: Paul E. Pelletier is a consultant and an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School. He was formerly a financial-crimes prosecutor in Miami and at the Justice Department. It was tax season 1999. I was a federal economic-crimes prosecutor in Miami, and this was the time of year my colleagues and I brought cases to deter would-be tax cheats. My target was a tax-return preparer operating out of Liberty City’s “Pork & Beans” projects, made famous in the movie