Presumably, during the initial legal acting time, he installed top level management that agrees/supports him. They’re happy to go along. Farther down the management chain, they’ll say the direction came from the others.
Does the GA, IRS, or OMB need the justice department to lead this? As noted, justice will clearly do nothing. Assuming the rest of top management is willing to listen to him even if he’s not in charge, I’m not sure what could be done to stop them from taking direction and calling it their own with no boss above them.
However, if he’s getting a paycheck that would seem to be illegal. There’s clearly no reason to pay him for a job he cannot have. Which should mean that someone is on the hook for fraud with the HR paperwork and paycheck. Hopefully, someone much lower in the food chain can bring a complaint of fraudulent spending.
