President Trump’s Department of Justice just reassigned around 20 senior career attorneys in the department, some of whom were in some way part of the prosecution of Trump under Biden.
Here’s more from Reuters:
Donald Trump’s administration has reassigned about 20 senior career Justice Department attorneys, two sources familiar with the moves told Reuters, as the new president moves swiftly to shake up an arm of government that has long drawn his ire.
The group included at least four officials who have each served in the Justice Department for 12 years or longer, the first two sources and two additional sources said.
The four officials had kept their roles as control of the White House shifted repeatedly between the Democratic and Republican parties, underscoring the unusual nature of the shakeup.
Several of the attorneys were reassigned to a newly created Sanctuary Cities Enforcement Working Group, as Trump moves to try to stop state and city government officials from resisting his plans to crack down on illegal immigration, the sources said.
The sanctuary cities office was tasked with challenging local and state laws and policies that conflict with Trump’s immigration agenda, according to a memo seen by Reuters.
Reuters could only identify four of the attorneys below. Their names aren’t really interesting to me, but their relationship to these investigations of Trump caught my attention:
One of the reassigned career officials is Corey Amundson, the chief of the Public Integrity Section, which advised the attorneys leading the prosecutions of Trump, according to three of the sources.
Amundson declined to comment.
The second reassigned official is George Toscas, a senior official in the National Security Division, who oversaw counterintelligence investigations, according to three sources. In court documents, Trump’s lawyers named Toscas as a supporter of the FBI’s search of Trump’s Florida property for classified documents.
Toscas could not immediately be reached for comment.
The third is Eun Young Choi, who led the Justice Department’s cryptocurrency enforcement initiative and was also on the team that prosecuted Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, whom Trump pardoned on Tuesday.
Choi could not immediately be reached for comment.
The fourth is Bruce Swartz, a deputy assistant attorney general who worked on international law and treaty negotiations. He could not be immediately reached for comment.
I would imagine that most of the 20 were reassigned for similar reasons. Trump’s acting Attorney General is clearly working to remove the corrupt deep state and put them in places where they aren’t a threat to Trump.