A Department of Justice employee claims she was fired after feds discovered her husband had developed an anti-ICE phone app. 

Carolyn Feinstein, who is married to ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron, said she was unfairly removed from her post in ‘retribution’ against her partner’s work. 

The ICEBlock app sets out warning signals to users when ICE agents are within a five-mile radius of their location, allowing targets to flee. 

After Aaron was exposed online for creating the app, Feinstein said she was terminated from her post as a forensic accountant after almost a decade working for the DoJ. 

‘This was retribution. I was fired because of the actions, or activism, of my husband,’ Texas-based Feinstein told the Daily Beast on Monday. 

‘It is insulting to me because I dedicated myself and my career to serving the people of the United States, and now the DOJ is claiming I was attempting to harm some of them. And that’s not true.’ 

Feinstein, who specializes in bankruptcy fraud, said she felt ‘targeted’ because of her husband’s app, which has been downloaded almost one million times. 

Aaron had not been hiding his role in creating the app – he spoke with CNN in June explaining how the app works, and faced fierce criticism from MAGA fans afterward. 

Department of Justice employee Carolyn Feinstein has been fired after the feds discovered her husband developed an anti-ICE phone app. (Pictured: Feinstein with her husband)

The ICEBlock app (pictured above) sets out warning signals to users when ICE agents are within a five-mile radius of their location, allowing targets to flee federal agents 

Pictured: Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks to the media, in the Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington D.C., June 27, 2025

‘When I saw what was happening in this country, I wanted to do something to fight back,’ Aaron told CNN.

He went on to compare the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown to purges carried out by the Nazi regime in 1930’s Germany. 

‘We’re literally watching history repeat itself,’ he said. 

The interview prompted a flood of MAGA rage online, while Trump administration officials like border tsar Tom Homan and ICE acting director Tom Lyon called on the DoJ to investigate the matter. 

‘We will not be intimidated. We will not be deterred,’ Aaron told The Daily Beast at the time. 

‘As long as ICE agents have quotas, and this administration ignores people’s Constitutional rights, we will continue fighting back. No human is illegal.’

After Aaron was exposed online for creating the app, Feinstein said she was fired from her post as a forensic accountant after almost a decade working for the DoJ 

The ICEBlock app (pictured above) sets out warning signals to users when ICE agents are within a five-mile radius of their location, allowing targets to flee federal agents

Feinstein said she responded by telling her bosses about her relationship with Aaron.

‘Since we live in the same house, I thought it was pertinent to contact my employer, the DOJ, to notify them of death threats that were coming in and just in case I needed to be out of the office, so they would be prepared,’ she told the Daily Beast.

Feinstein was then contacted by officials who asked her about her association with the ICEBlock app.  

‘I informed them in so many words that I really didn’t have any relationship or involvement in the app, I was married to the creator,’ she said. 

But Homan said he had contacted the DoJ airing concerns about the connection. He told NewsMax that ‘all (Aaron is) doing is giving a heads up to criminals’.  

‘The DOJ’s looking at it, and they need to throw some people in jail,’ he said. 

Feinstein says she received her termination note ‘within 24 hours’ of Homan’s Newsmax interview airing. 

Aaron had not been hiding his role in creating the app – he spoke with a CNN affiliate in June, as shown above, explaining how the app works, and faced a MAGA backlash afterwards

Feinstein (pictured with Aaron), who specializes in bankruptcy fraud, said she felt ‘targeted’ because of her husband’s app, which has been downloaded almost a million times

A DoJ spokesperson told the Daily Beast the department had spent ‘several weeks’ investigating Feinstein’s activities and discovered that she has interests in the company that holds the IP for the ICEBlock app. 

Feinstein argued that her minority shareholder status in All U Chart Inc is just a safety net so that ‘if Joshua were incapacitated, or further, I have the ability to shut it down’.   

‘ICEBlock is an app that illegal aliens use to evade capture while endangering the lives of ICE officers,’ a DoJ spokesperson told the Daily Beast. 

They added that the department ‘will not tolerate threats against law enforcement or law enforcement officers.’