Trump offered to resign all Obama appointed prosecutors
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has asked for the resignation of 46 federal prosecutors who were appointed to their posts as 44 President Barack Obama.
По его словам, это необходимо, чтобы «обеспечить согласованный процесс смены руководства”, пишет with the BBC.
The Justice Department clarified that the 47 of the 93 prosecutors appointed by the previous administration had already resigned voluntarily.
The heads of district prosecutor's offices appointed by the previous president of the country often resign after the new head of the White House takes office. However, not every new administration requests that all prosecutors resign at the same time.
The federal prosecutors appointed by Obama will continue their work until Donald Trump approves their successors.
The request to leave his post was also sent to the Prosecutor of Manhattan Pritu Bharara, whom President Donald Trump had intended to keep in office. At least, this is how Bharara himself understood him after meeting with the then elected president in New York.
Manhattan’s Attorney General is responsible for the most important criminal cases and legal proceedings in the country for the country.
Bharara said that he refused to resign voluntarily, after which he was simply fired.
«Я не подавал в отставку. Только что меня уволили. Работа на посту прокурора Южного округа Нью-Йорка всегда будет величайшей честью в моей профессиональной жизни“, — написал Бхарара в своем микроблоге Twitter.
I did not resign. Moments ago I was fired. It will be the greatest honor of my professional life.
- Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) March 11, 2017
48-year-old Prith Bharara was perhaps the most prominent of the US federal prosecutors. Fame brought him a number of corruption cases that he led, and loud lawsuits in the field of business, writes with the BBC.
In 2013, he won a case against hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors. Stephen Cohen's hedge fund then pleaded guilty to securities fraud and agreed to pay a record fine of $ 1,8 billion.
Since the summer of 2016, Bharar has investigated the mayor of New York, Bill De Blasio, who was suspected of corruption during the election campaign of 2013.
Bharara also led the charge against Russian Viktor Bout, who was found guilty in the United States of conspiring to kill American citizens, trying to sell anti-aircraft missiles and supporting terrorism through cooperation with the Colombian group FARC. In 2013, due to his involvement in the Bout case, the Russian Foreign Ministry banned Bharara from entering Russia.
Among the experts formed several opinions on why Bharara was fired, reports with the BBC.
First, he might have misunderstood Trump during their November 2016 talk. Secondly, it is likely that Trump's entourage looked at Bharara as the man of New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, whose future prosecutor once worked as general counsel. Schumer became the leader of the democratic faction in the US Senate this year and regularly trumps Trump in his speeches.
Trump is not able to do anything with Schumer, but, according to this version, he decided to recoup his man Bharara.
Thirdly, Bharara just became a victim of a general purge of the federal prosecutor’s office, which Fox News host, Sean Henneti, called on Thursday on the air, who was Trump's friend and called back every day.
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