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  • They prosecuted the Capitol rioters. Now the rioters and the DOJ are after them.

    12/17/2025 10:30:41 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 35 replies
    Reuters ^ | December 17, 2025 | By Mike Spector, M.B. Pell, Benjamin Lesser, Ned Parker and Isaac Vargas
    The Capitol riot of January 2021 set off the largest criminal investigation in the Justice Department’s history. For federal prosecutor Ashley Akers, it was a defining moment in a seven-year career spent untangling complex cases, from wire fraud to domestic terrorism. She helped put away dozens of rioters – including some who swung bats and beat police officers. Then the tables turned. On his first day back in office, U.S. President Donald Trump granted clemency to every criminally charged January 6 rioter. Akers resigned. Now, Akers and other prosecutors who handled Capitol riot cases face a new threat. Reuters has...
  • Reuters: As Trump shakes Justice Department, deeply conservative prosecutors head for exits

    02/15/2025 2:39:12 PM PST · by RandFan · 56 replies
    Reuters/MSN ^ | Feb 15 | Story by Jack Queen, Mike Spector, Luc Cohen and Sarah N. Lynch
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's drive to shake up the U.S. government drove out a rising star in conservative legal circles: A career federal prosecutor who once clerked for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Danielle Sassoon, tapped to lead the Manhattan federal prosecutor's office on Trump's second day in office, quit on Thursday rather than go along with a Justice Department order to drop a criminal corruption case against Democratic New York Mayor Eric Adams. The department ordered the case dropped, citing the city's approaching November mayoral election and saying that prosecuting Adams could interfere with...