When the White House launched a federal prosecutor last week in Los Angeles, it could have been rejected as an isolated issue, as the administration targeted a democratic candidate for one time in the Congress that criticized President Trump for the campaign’s path.
But in the days after that, it became clear that the separation is part of a broader campaign against Trump’s enemies who have assembled the Ministry of Justice and some law firms in the country.
Last Friday, the White House, Adam Shelvver, an American lawyer assistant in the strike force in companies and securities that were leading an investigation into an executive official. After the Times reported on this issue, the White House press secretary Caroline Levit issued a statement that the Ministry of Justice had canceled at least 50 American lawyers and deputies in the country in the past few weeks.
“The American people deserve a judicial branch full of honest arbitrators of the law who want to protect democracy, not sabotage,” Levit said.
Levitte did not explain how he claimed that those who shoot were spoiling democracy, and White House officials did not respond to more information.
Trump has a authority over federal prosecutors because the offices of the American lawyer are part of the Ministry of Justice, which falls under the executive branch, not the judicial branch. While it is natural for us lawyers, who are political appointed, resignation or forcing them to go out when a new administration of power, many lawyers said that the prosecutors such as Schleif are professional employees who can only be terminated for poor performance or misconduct.
By expelling one of the individual public prosecutors via an email message, sources said he was “on behalf of President Donald J Sources familiar with the launch of Schifer, along with many others who spoke to the Times, requested not to reveal his identity, pointing to concerns about the reverse reaction.
The White House and the US Department of Justice did not say exactly the reason for the launch of Shelvir. Shaliver and the US Prosecutor’s Office in Los Angeles refused to comment.
Multiple federal laws said that she suspected that the launch of Silder was linked to the monetary comments he made about Trump during his campaign in Congress and his simulation of the Executive Director of fast food that donated about $ 40,000 to Trump and the Republic in recent years.
Kony Woodhid, an old veterans for 30 years in the Ministry of Justice and a former American assistant in the office, where Schifer worked, called the conditions of his departure “unprecedented”.
“I think it is very bodied … especially without an additional interpretation, for any American lawyer who charges anyone who might be a friend of [Trump] Management, or administration donor.
The Trump team did not hide its intention to rid the government of the employees who challenge the president or his allies and their interests. An hour before Shitcler’s launch, Laura Lumer, who sometimes worked as a Trump advisor, started calling for social media to overthrow. Lomer celebrated later at all In x on SaturdayHe said, “Biden owns those who publicly express bias against President Trump” should all be expelled.
The function of the assistant American lawyer is not glamorous, which involves worldly but legal work of prosecuting all kinds of federal crimes, from white collar fraud to international conspiracies of drugs and general corruption. It was a professional launch point for many prominent legal figures, as major law firms were often shot at the best talent. Keeping the best prosecutors, who are largely considered by non -political situations, is a long challenge for the government.
Many former federal prosecutors said that the launch of an auxiliary deputy in the United States would usually be an arduous process that includes the employee supervisor and higher operations in the provincial office. The Public Prosecutor may be placed on a “performance improvement plan”, for example, before considering the termination.
“The professional prosecutors who have exceeded their position under surveillance have public service protection. This usually means that before the shooting, there will be a good and well -documented process,” said Carly Palmer, a former supervisor of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Los Angeles, who is now a partner at Halpern May Ybarra Gelberg LLP. “It is difficult to launch a post -test person.”
Multi -Times sources told the weekend that Joseph T. McNali, the American lawyer, Acting Los Angeles, did not participate in the decision to finish Schifer. Sources, which were not publicly authorized and fearful of revenge, were suspected of shooting on Schilcer, in part, if assigned to involve Andrew Widrurhn, former CEO of the company that owns FATBURGER and Johnny Rockets.
Last May, the Grand Compluts at Wiederhorn accused the taxable income from the federal government by disbursing “shareholders’ loans “from the company to himself and his family, then the money was used to achieve personal gains. He admitted that he was not guilty.
Wiederhorn’s lawyers strongly pushed the Ministry of Justice officials to drop the case, according to two exporters. The case against Wiederhorn, which donated about $ 40,000 to Trump’s political action committees and the Republican National Committee in the past two years, is still hanging in the Federal Court. The defense team did not respond to a request for comment after the dismissal of Schifer.
Besides the Wiederhorn case, there are also fears that Schleifer has been targeted for political reasons. Silderver made several unexpected statements about Trump when he nominated an open seat in Congress in the seventeenth province of New York in 2020.
One of his former colleagues in Shelvver said that despite his political ambitions outside the office, he only focused on the law when he came to work.
“He is very smart. He works hard. He is neutral. He governs issues based on evidence,” Woodhid said. “He was not political in the office.”
Shelvver left his position during his 2020 political campaign, but he was appointed to the office before Biden was installed in 2021 by the United States of America. Nicolas Hanna, appointed Trump. Hanna is now part of the Wiederhorn defense team. None of Wiederhorn’s lawyer responded to the comment requests from The Times.
Shelver’s launch appears to be just the latest case to wander in the Ministry of Justice.
Reagan Fundreen, the acting American lawyer for the western region of Tennessee, was recently launched in an email from the White House of electronic lines, according to what he said Daily Mamifian. Fundreen cannot be reached immediately to comment.
Adam Cohen, director of the Anti -Narcotics Action Squad, organized crime, He wrote last month on LinkedIn He was suddenly expelled after more than 26 years, following up “mobs in old schools, street gang members, heads of kartel, terrorists” and others for the Ministry of Justice in Washington.
“Putting the bad guys in prison was non -political as it happened,” Cohen wrote. “I served under five presidents and 11 years of lawyers … My personal politics was not relevant.”
In January, more than ten general actors were expelled after working on criminal cases against Trump. This included Gregory Bernstein, who worked in the main fraud department at the US Public Prosecutor’s Office in Los Angeles
Bernstein had previously helped the investigation of Special Counselor Jacques Smith in allegations that Trump has offended the documents classified after leaving his position and strengthening a rebellion with lies about the results of the 2020 elections. Bernstein refused to request the interview.
Prosecutors of the Private Prosecutor received a letter from the Ministry of Justice that shows that, given their “important role” in the Trump prosecution, “I do not think that the leadership of the administration can trust you to help implement the president’s agenda honestly.”
These lawyers have since retained the law of the legitimacy and challenges of the legitimacy of the shooting through an appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Council, which depicts itself as an independent semi -judicial agency in the executive authority. Palmer said that if the Board of Directors did not shoot Chillechir and Bernstein, they should be prosecuted to the Federal Court to restore their jobs.
Jack Smith was among the hundreds of former lawyer of the Ministry of Justice who fell in February Open message To the federal prosecutors who have expressed a “warning” about the recent procedures by the leadership leadership. The message came after the Ministry of Justice ordered the rejection of corruption charges against Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, despite the high -level prosecutors from both sides of the political spectrum that resigns in protest against this matter.
“We have learned to pursue justice without fear or good, and we knew that our decisions to investigate and charges should only depend on the facts and law,” the message mentioned. “We knew that these values were more than just requirements in evidence – it was a foundation for a fair and legal legal system. We had supported them regardless of who was the president.”
The current and former federal prosecutors raised concerns about the ability of federal prosecutors to find work in the private sector after Trump issued many executive orders targeting companies that have had relationships with some of his political enemies, including former lawyer Robert S. Muller III and Hillary Clinton, his opponents in the 2016 elections.
Although the provincial court judges died on some Trump orders targeting law firms, it is not constitutional, some companies have sought to satisfy him.
Paul, Weiss, Rivation, and Erton & Garrison – who has once tried to build a criminal case against Trump while working in the Manhattan County Lawyer’s office – He agreed to contribute $ 40 million in legal services for reasons that support TrumpIncluding “the President’s Action Squad to combat anti -Semitism, and other projects that are interchangeable.”
The company that According to what was reported, about 2000 people are employedHe also agreed to review her employment practices and pledged to “not adopt, use or follow any DEI policies.”