Justice Department officials are drafting plans to broadly restructure — and significantly downsize — several key units in Washington responsible for investigating cases of fraud and public corruption, according to three people briefed on the changes….
If enacted, they would be the latest initiative by the Trump administration aimed at limiting the ability of prosecutors in Washington to bring sensitive and politically fraught cases against business figures and elected officials….
The move, like the forced transfers or firings of career nonpolitical prosecutors in recent weeks, is part of an effort to reduce the power of divisions that Trump appointees claim were politically “weaponized” or otherwise overused under the Biden administration [which, of course, is complete bullshit].
Chad Gilmartin, a department spokesman, would not comment on specific plans but said the department’s leadership was “making sure our resources are being utilized in a way that assures the mission to make America safe again is successful.”
The changes being considered would affect prosecutors inside the Justice Department’s public integrity division, along with units that prosecute foreign corruption cases and conduct investigations focused on money laundering and asset recovery, the people said.
The public integrity unit, which focuses on criminal cases against elected officials, has already been particularly hard hit. Several of its prosecutors resigned last month after top officials pushed to drop a bribery case against New York’s mayor, Eric Adams.
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