Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy

Bogden was one of eight attorneys dismissed as part of the Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy in 2006. When Bogden was fired, Nevada US Senator John Ensign (R), who had originally nominated him, was decidedly unhappy, particularly after hearing explanations by the Justice Department of the reasons. Ensign commented: "What the Justice Department testified yesterday is inconsistent with what they told me. I can't even tell you how upset I am at the Justice Department."^[7] A week later, Ensign said "I'm calling on the President of the United States and the attorney general to restore Dan Bogden's reputation....Everyone in Nevada thought Dan had done a superb job....I believe a very good man was wronged and a process was flawed."^[8]

Allegedly, Bogdan was fired for investigating Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons (R) for bribery.^{[2][9][10][11][12]}

Paul McNulty, a senior DOJ official noted, in an email two days before the dismissals, "I'm still a little skittish about Bogden. He has been with DOJ since 1990 and, at age 50, has never had a job outside of government."^[13] McNulty's "skittishness" was reportedly due to concern that Bogden would be unable to find employment and care for his family; this was assuaged in a 90-second meeting with Monica Goodling, where he was informed that Bogden was not married; this ended his concern, and the firing proceeded as planned.^[14]

Joint action with the Federal Trade Commission

On August 25, 2016, Bogden joined with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in filing a lawsuit against the OMICS Group and Srinubabu Gedela, the president of the conglomerate^[15][16] The action was taken partly in response to on-going pressure from the academic community to act against predatory publishers and the organizers of predatory conferences.^[17] The complaint was lodged with the United States District Court for the District of Nevada and alleges that the defendants have been "deceiving academics and researchers about the nature of its publications and hiding publication fees ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars"^[16] and notes that "OMICS regularly advertises conferences featuring academic experts who were never scheduled to appear in order to attract registrants"^[17] causing attendees to "spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on registration fees and travel costs to attend these scientific conferences."^[16] Attorneys for the OMICS Group published a response on their website, claiming "your FTC allegations are baseless. Further we understand that FTC working towards favoring some subscription based journals publishers who are earning Billions of dollars from scientists literature," and suggesting that corporations in the scientific publishing business were behind the allegations.^[15]