10 Jul 2020 9:07 pm
AG Barr has now decapitated the third and final U.S. Attorney's office that was investigating Trump and/or his associates.
First it was D.C. then SDNY and now EDNY who was investigating Trump's inaugural committee.
First it was D.C. then SDNY and now EDNY who was investigating Trump's inaugural committee.
Barr upends U.S. Attorney succession in EDNY
President Donald Trump signed an unprecedented executive order Thursday to upend the established rules of succession for U.S. attorneys, installing a loyalist to Attorney General William Barr as head prosecutor in the Eastern District of New York.
Seth DuCharme, a career prosecutor in the EDNY, had been detailed to the Justice Department in D.C., first as special counselor to Barr, and at the end of the year took over as principal deputy coordinating the work of the nation’s U.S. attorneys.
He will now succeed Richard Donoghue, who is heading to Washington to take the slot DuCharme is vacating.
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Donoghue’s resignation initially was to take effect just after midnight Monday, but on Friday afternoon he made his departure effective immediately.
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