Joseph E . Schmitz Joseph Edward Schmitz ( born August 28 , 1956 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ) is an American lawyer , former Inspector General of the Department of Defense and a former executive with Blackwater Worldwide , a private contractor providing security services to the U . S . State Department and the U . S . military . Biography . Joseph Edward Schmitz is the son of John G . Schmitz , former California State Senator , member of the U . S . House of Representatives , and U . S . Presidential candidate ( 1972 ) . Schmitz attended Catholic schools as a child and Georgetown Preparatory School while his father served in Congress . He holds a Bachelor of Science ( 1978 ) from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis , Maryland and a Juris Doctor ( 1986 ) from Stanford University . He was on the wrestling team at the Naval Academy . His siblings include Mary Kay Fualaau , Jerome Thomas Schmitz and John Patrick Schmitz . Upon graduation from the Naval Academy , Schmitz served in the U . S . Navy for approximately four years , including a stint as an exchange officer with the German Navy . Schmitz left active duty and was in the Naval Reserve until 2001 . After leaving active duty , Schmitz attended law school . He clerked with James L . Buckley , Circuit Judge , United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and was a special assistant to Attorney General Edwin Meese III during the Reagan Administration . Schmitz entered the private sector in 1987 , eventually joining the Washington , D . C . , firm of Patton Boggs LLP . He was an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University in the 1990s . He founded his own firm , " Joseph E . Schmitz , PLLC " , in 2008 . The company ' s domain " jespllc . com " was registered with Bethesda Hosting on May 22 , 2010 . He is a member of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta . He is an author of the anti - Islam report , " Sharia : The Threat to America " . In 2008 , he argued for the application of Sharia law in his plea to dismiss the Florida court case against Blackwater regarding Blackwater Flight 61 . This contradiction was first noted by Jeremy Scahill of The Nation . He is known to have a fascination with Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben , having installed seals bearing the Von Steuben family motto in the Inspector General ' s office during his time there . As Inspector General , Schmitz showed an unusual interest in the sex slave trade , investigating involvement of the U . S . military in the sex trade in South Korea , Bosnia , and Kosovo , but found nothing other than petty prostitution . His immediate family has a history of unusual sexual relationships with students . His father , John G . Schmitz , admitted having an affair with German exchange student , Carla Stuckle , whom he taught while a professor at Santa Ana College . He fathered two children by her for which he admitted fatherhood but refused to take responsibility , even after their mother ' s death . They ultimately ended in a state orphanage . Schmitz ' s sister , Mary Kay Letourneau , is a teacher who served 7 years in prison following her 1997 conviction for rape of a sixth grade pupil . After her release from prison , Schmitz ' s sister married the pupil and they have since had two children . Inspector General of the Department of Defense . Schmitz was nominated by President George W . Bush to be Defense Department Inspector General on June 18 , 2001 . His nomination was held up in the Senate Armed Services Committee for unknown reasons until March 21 , 2002 , when he was confirmed by the full Senate by voice vote . One of his first actions as Inspector General was to hire controversial republican operative L . Jean Lewis as his chief of staff . Allegations and Resignation . Although Senator Charles Grassley published numerous allegations against Inspector General Schmitz toward the end of his almost four - year tenure as the Senate - confirmed Inspector General of the Department of Defense , none of those allegations was ever substantiated . All of Senator Grassley ’ s allegations were investigated by an independent Office of Inspector General under the auspices of the Integrity Committee of the President ’ s Council on Integrity & Efficiency ( PCIE ) , which on October 19 , 2006 , “ concluded that there was no wrongdoing . ” [ Citation : PCIE Integrity Committee Fax to PCIE Chairman , October 19 , 2006 . See also , “ Corrections , ” The Washington Post , p . A02 , November 20 , 2010 ( clarifying that its prior article about Inspector General Schmitz , “ failed to state that Schmitz was exonerated of any wrongdoing by the Integrity Committee of the President ’ s Council on Integrity and Efficiency in 2006 “ ) . ] Schmitz resigned as Defense Department Inspector General on September 9 , 2005 in the wake of allegations that he intervened to obstruct the FBI investigation of fellow Bush appointee to the Department of Defense John A . Shaw in relation to contracting improprieties in Iraq for which Shaw was fired in December 2004 . The allegations also included interference in the investigation of Mary L . Walker ' s role in the Torture Memos scandal and Schmitz ' s redaction of an investigative report on Boeing to remove the names of White House officials before sending it to congress . In addition to serious questions regarding Schmitz ' s independence from the White House , Senator Charles Grassley ( R - Iowa ) also submitted complaints that Schmitz had accepted a trip to South Korea paid for by a former lobbying client and similarly obtained eight tickets to a Washington Nationals basketball game . In a letter dated June 15 , 2005 , and posted on the Inspector General ' s website on September 2 , 2005 , Schmitz recused himself from investigating all matters related to Blackwater . After resigning , Schmitz took a position with the Prince Group , a holding company for Blackwater Worldwide , which provides security services and training to the U . S . military in Iraq and elsewhere . The Congressional Record states that " Congressional aides . . . are still scratching their heads about how Schmitz got his job . "