20 Jun 2020 1:18 pm
If it walks like a corrupt duck and talks like a corrupt duck, it's a corrupt duck.Powerful US attorney who investigated Trump associates refuses to step down after Barr tries to push him out.
Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton writes in his forthcoming book that in 2018, Trump offered to help Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with a Justice Department investigation into a Turkish bank, Halkbank, with ties to Erdogan that was suspected of violating US Iran sanctions.
Trump, according to Bolton, told his Turkish counterpart that the Southern District prosecutors "were not his people, but were Obama people," and the problem would be fixed when they were replaced by Trump.
At the time, Berman had already been installed in New York office.
Berman and the Justice Department brought a case against Halkbank in October 2019.