One of the preeminent U.S. attorney's offices in the country is facing mounting turmoil in the wake of the move last week by a Trump-installed prosecutor to indict former FBI Director James Comey.
Two top attorneys in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia have been fired from their jobs in recent days, sources told ABC, and lawyers in the office believe their removals were driven by political vengeance on behalf of President Donald Trump.
The office's top national security official, Michael Ben'Ary, was informed Wednesday of his termination just hours after a MAGA-aligned activist posted on social media about his past work in the office of former Biden-era Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, sources told ABC News.
Ben'Ary, who had risen through ranks of federal law enforcement over the past 20 years, was the lead attorney on the case of Mohammad Sharifullah -- an alleged plotter who is accused of assisting ISIS-K in the bombing of Abbey Gate whose case and extradition to the U.S. was announced by Trump in a joint address to Congress earlier this year. Sharifullah is set to stand trial in early December.
Another prosecutor, Maya Song, the former deputy to Erik Siebert -- who was ousted two weeks ago under pressure from Trump -- was fired last Friday by Siebert's replacement Lindsey Halligan, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
Song had opted to accept a demotion as a line prosecutor in the wake of Siebert's resignation after he ...
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