The acting attorney general fired more than a dozen officials who assisted special counsel Jack Smith's prosecutions against President Donald Trump.
The DOJ official argued that the firings are in line with the Trump administration’s “mission of ending the weaponization of government.”
The Trump Justice Department says it has fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal investigations into President Donald Trump.
Attorney General Merrick Garland had agreed not to make the special counsel's findings public while the Justice Department appealed a judge's dismissal of the case.
The Justice Department has abandoned all criminal proceedings against two of President Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the classified documents case against him in Florida.
The DOJ asked a federal court to dismiss its case against two men indicted for allegedly helping Trump conceal classified documents. Prosecutors dropped Trump from the case after his election win.
Washington — The top federal prosecutor in South Florida is asking a federal appeals court to toss out the classified documents case against President Trump’s former co-defendants, aide Walt Nauta and former Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos de Oliveira.
The department’s motion to drop the case was signed by Hayden O’Byrne, who was appointed as the “interim” U.S. Attorney in Miami on Monday at the same time as the firings. O’Byrne, a member of the conservative Federalist Society, was hired as a prosecutor by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2019.
Walt Nauta, Trump’s longtime valet, and Carlos De Oliveira, a manager at Mar a Lago, are now set to be cleared of any criminal wrongdoing for their involvement in Trump’s alleged
Without an explanation, the DOJ asked an appeals court to end its challenge against a prior decision to throw out its prosecution of valet Walt Nauta and property manager Carlos De Oliveira.