Trump-appointed U.S. attorneys have until the end of the month to hand in their resignations, according to multiple reports, which means Massachusetts will likely soon have a new top federal prosecutor.
A senior Justice Department official speaking on background said that most of the U.S. attorneys appointed by former President Donald Trump will be asked to resign. Various U.S. attorneys from around the country have told media outlets that President Biden’s administration is giving them until the end of the month.
The office of U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling, the top federal prosecutor in Massachusetts, told the Herald on Tuesday that he’s still on the job, but didn’t elaborate further. Various local lawyers have applied for the position, sources have said.
The U.S. attorney overseeing the federal tax probe involving Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, will remain in place. The acting attorney general, Monty Wilkinson, called U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who runs the federal prosecutor’s office in Delaware, and asked him to remain in place, the DOJ official said.
The Justice Department has been investigating the finances of Hunter Biden, including scrutinizing some of his Chinese business dealings and other transactions. The tax investigation was launched in 2018, the year before the elder Biden announced his candidacy for president. Hunter Biden confirmed the existence of the investigation in December after a round of subpoenas was issued in the case.
The subpoena seeking documents from Hunter Biden in December asked for information related to more than two dozen entities, including Ukraine gas company Burisma.
Separately, U.S. Attorney John Durham, who was appointed in October by then-Attorney General William Barr as a special counsel to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, will remain in that capacity, the senior Justice Department official said, but is expected to resign from his other position as the U.S. attorney in Connecticut.
It’s fairly customary for the U.S. attorneys to leave their positions after a new president is in office, but the departures are not automatic and don’t necessarily happen all at once. In 2017, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked for the resignations of 46 U.S. attorneys who were holdovers from the Obama administration.
The 93 U.S. attorneys serve at the pleasure of the president and are generally nominated with a recommendation from a home-state senator.
Herald wire services contributed to this report.
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Just be as corrupt as you want and get rich fast on the dime of THE PEOPLE, becasue all yoiu have to do is wait until your party gets into power and it;s a “Get out of Jail Free Card” or a future Presidential pardon,,,that is if you pay the right price. Democrats all know Biden can be purchased cheap if the change of Attorneys does not work out. Just ask Hillary.
The Socialist Democrat Party State, political officers and Gestapo are just getting started.
You will be loyal and support the “Socialist Democrat Party State” or you will be classified
as “Enemies of the State”.
By no means should they resign, it will then be up to the new unity first and tolerant administration to outrightly fire them. This would be very symbolic of the tolerance they preach. This will be telling if those left go have been successful in the prosecution of cases involving Antifa or BLM.
AND i thought you COULDN’T clean house like this, according to what both sessions and barr told Trump, when HE WANTED TO FIRE EVERYONE obama put into office….
BUT like always, i guess WHAT Is good for them to do, is wrong for us to do.
“The U.S. attorneys overseeing the federal tax probe involving Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, will remain in place”. Per Tucker, the defense attorney representing Hunter Biden, has a law partner, that was just appointed by Joe Stalin Mao Biden, to a high position in the Department of No Justice. So the investigation of Hunter is dead in the water, just as the William Barr deep state investigation of the coup against Trump is dead in the water, as Barr and Durham were never going to bring charges against any of the coup criminals!
Evil tics.
I more than despise these arrogant usurpers, these enemies of We the People.
If there could be found one (1) honest reputable democratic politician it would be a true miracle!
IF they were honest, they wouldn’t BE A DEMOCRACK..
We might not like it, but this is standard practice every time there is a change of political-party presidents. If you all remember so well the turmoil the Dems tried to inflict on us when G.W. Bush asked for the resignations of all Obama appointees – and in fact, the Attorney General eventually lost his job over this very thing. So, this is nothing new – don’t get y our panties in a wad about it. Every new President wants to appoint his own “friendly supporters.” After all, it’s politics. And I worked for years in a United States Attorneys Office.
I don’t remember reagan, or bush Sr doing it. Nor do i remember bush Jr doing it to clinton’s, OR TRUMP doing it to obamas staff…