� Pigford Witness Report: Black Applicants Claim Racial Discrimination Against Black USDA Officials - Big Government

I’ve worked with the USDA for more than 25 years. The situation with Pigford has been horrible. There were cases of discrimination. Perhaps 100 cases in the whole state of [redacted]. But the federal government paid out thousands of claims, a lot of them churned by attorneys who made a lot of money.

Attorneys caught on to the fact that the federal government doesn’t keep records. They either don’t keep them well in terms of who they are meeting with or they are destroyed after a couple of years. Attorneys recognized this and exploited it in Pigford."