All posts tagged "Prosecutors"

The four lead prosecutors who led the $250 million Minnesota fraud case have all quit amid mass resignations, according to reports on Wednesday.

The departures of Joe Thompson, Harry Jacobs, Daniel Bobier and Matthew Ebert from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota mark a number "already-diminished office," including a wave of dozens who have already resigned from their roles, CBS reported. They have reportedly passed the case to "relative newcomers to the office."

Now, as few as 17 assistant U.S. attorneys have held on, which is a major drop from the 70 working during the Biden administration, an inside source told CBS. ...

Federal prosecutors in President Donald Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) are increasingly opting to embarrass themselves in court rather than risk the wrath of the White House.

That's according to a Friday article by the New York Times' Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer, who reported that the DOJ's recent string of public losses is seen as highly uncharacteristic of the federal government. One recent example is the DOJ failing to convince a grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), just one week after a separate grand jury in Norfolk, Virginia, declined to return an indictment.

"Federal grand juries almost never decline to bring an indictment once, much less twice. Such rejections, known as 'no true bills,' have been exceedingly rare, a misfire that often stigmatizes the prosecutors involved," Thrush and Feuer wrote. "They are becoming more common, and accepted, in a department where face-planting in court might be preferable to facing down the boss."...

In a move that critics called "baseless and undemocratic," Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday removed another elected state attorney—Monique Worrell of the 9th Judicial Circuit, which includes Orange and Osceola counties—accusing her of "incompetence" and "neglect of duty" for how she has handled some criminal cases.

The governor—also a struggling 2024 GOP presidential candidate—appointed Andrew Bain, who most recently served as an Orange County judge, to replace Worrell for the duration of her suspension, which the ousted prosecutor plans to challenge in court.

Last August, DeSantis suspended Andrew Warren of the 13th Judicial Circuit over his pledges not to prosecute people for violating restrictions on abortion or gender-affirming care. Warren, who is still fighting for his job back, called Worrell's ouster "another illegal and unconstitutional attack on democracy by a small, scared man who is desperate to save his political career."...

The people who are prosecuting Donald Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents are reportedly facing threats and harassment as the former president lashes out against them on his social media site.

Individuals working on the Mar-a-Lago documents case against the former president are facing "substantial harassment and threats online and elsewhere," according to the Washington Post, which cited extremism experts and a government official familiar with the case.

"Far-right Trump supporters are posting the names of prosecutors and government workers online and yelling them at demonstrations, threatening them and sometimes revealing details about their personal lives, the experts said," the outlet reported on Thursday. "At the Justice Department, officials have responded by trying to keep the names of prosecutors and agents working the Trump cases from becoming public in official documents, congressional hearings and less formal conversations about the case."...

A nationally recognized golf instructor charged with molesting some of his teenage students tried to hire a hit man to kill three of his victims, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said an Oregon woman beat her 4-year-old son to death because she feared he was gay.