DOJ fires wife of an ICEBlock app creator, and she’s ‘insulted’

A termination notice found a Justice Department employee, who is the wife of an anti-ICE app creator, crying “retribution” while officials told a different story.

Radical efforts to obstruct and interfere with President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda have included the launch of the ICEBlock app, a real-time mapping program that allows users to show where they’ve spotted immigration enforcement operations within a narrow radius. Now, after sleuths on social media have identified the creator’s wife as a DOJ auditor, she is out of a job following a “lack of candor.”

Speaking with The Daily Beast, now-former auditor for the Office of the U.S. Trustee, Carolyn Feinstein, wife of ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron, lamented her Friday termination, saying, “This was retribution. I was fired because of the actions, or activism, of my husband.”

“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,” she went on.

According to the Notice of Removal from Federal Service memorandum transmitted to Feinstein that was shared by the Beast, “Pursuant to Article II of the United States Constitution and the laws of the United States and based on your lack of candor during an internal inquiry, your employment with the Department of Justice is hereby terminated, and you are removed from federal service effective immediately.”

Prior to the termination, backlash over the ICEBlock app included reporting from CNN that the Trump administration was considering prosecution against the network for obstructing justice. As Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem put it, “We’re working with the Department of Justice to see if we can prosecute them for that, because what they’re doing is actively encouraging people to avoid law enforcement activities — operations.”

While Aaron — who reportedly self-identifies on social media as “Proud #Antifa” and in the past has contended, “Once again we should all be #antifa” — appeared on CNN, the X account Sippi Cup was credited as the first to determine that a DOJ employee was romantically involved with the app creator, a point that was later updated to highlight the pair are married.

I would like to make a correction to this. His name is Joshua Aaron Feinstein and he is married to the DOJ auditor Carolyn Feinstein https://t.co/W2B364qHA3

— Sippi Cup (@sippicup2) July 12, 2025

Decrying the doxxing over putting the safety of law enforcement officers at risk, Feinstein recounted to The Beast that she notified her employer of her relationship with Aaron and explained, “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.”

Days later, an ethics committee reached out through the Office of the U.S. Trustee, and she said, “They asked me about my relationship to the ICEBlock App. And 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.”

A spokesperson for the DOJ suggested otherwise as The Beast was told the department had been looking into Feinstein for “several weeks” and that it had been determined that she holds an interest in the company holding the IP of the ICEBlock app.

“ICEBlock is an app that illegal aliens use to evade capture while endangering the lives of ICE officers,” the spokesperson said, making clear the department “will not tolerate threats against law enforcement or law enforcement officers.”