Dionesio Calunsag Grava v. Immigrationand Naturalization Service

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• holding that official retaliation against those who expose governmental corruption constitutes persecution on account of political opinion when the alleged corruption is intertwined with the operation of government
• holding that official retaliation against those who prosecute governmental corruption amounts to persecution on account of political opinion when the alleged corruption is intertwined with the operation of the government
• holding that nexus existed where government employee exposed cor- ruption of his supervisors
• stating that threats against whistleblower who reported corrupt behavior of government officials might be on account of political opinion
• holding “[p]urely personal retribution is, of course, not persecution on account of” a protected ground
• explaining that efforts to expose corruption can constitute an expression of political opinion even if a petitioner “did not concomitantly espouse political theory”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).