🚨🇺🇸 TRUMP-APPOINTED PROSECUTOR FIRES TOP ATTORNEYS IN VIRGINIA OFFICE OVER LETITIA JAMES CASE
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) October 18, 2025
Lindsey Halligan, the Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, has reportedly fired 2 senior prosecutors who resisted efforts to charge New York Attorney… https://t.co/zl4qWZn63h pic.twitter.com/ahtNbzctCz
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Lindsey Halligan, the Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, has reportedly fired 2 senior prosecutors who resisted efforts to charge New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Elizabeth Yusi, head of the Norfolk criminal division, and her deputy Kristin Bird were dismissed Friday - just weeks after two other prosecutors were removed, including the office’s top national security lawyer.
Sources say the purge followed internal pushback against Halligan’s decision to indict James on bank fraud and false statement charges earlier this month.
Career prosecutors reportedly found “no evidence meeting probable cause”, but Halligan moved forward anyway - without their support.
James, who has denied all wrongdoing, called the case a politically motivated effort to weaponize the Justice Department against Trump’s critics.
She’s scheduled to be arraigned next Friday.
The firings deepen turmoil in one of the country’s most sensitive U.S. Attorney’s Offices - which handles national security and terrorism cases - and raise new alarms about political influence over federal prosecutions.
Source: ABC News
Sources tell me the prosecutors—Elizabeth Yusi and Kristin Bird—were fired, escorted from the building, and stripped of security clearances for leaking info on sensitive investigative matters to MSNBC and Fusion Ken in particular https://t.co/SgoPSBN5fv
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) October 17, 2025
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