Remaining 46 US attorneys hired by Obama asked to resign: Justice Dept.

Her statement, sent shortly after she arrived back in Cleveland after traveling to Toledo for a news conference on violent crime, came after Attorney General Jeff Sessions requested 46 USA attorneys who remained from President Barack Obama’s administration to resign immediately.

The 46 represent those appointed by Obama who have not yet left their positions.

According to one of those 46, his resignation is effective immediately – leaving a career prosecutor to run the United States attorney’s office until a new USA attorney is nominated and confirmed for the job.

All 46 remaining USA attorneys were asked to resign immediately. President Bill Clinton, for instance, dismissed dozens of U.S. attorneys in his first year of office. Sessions has said in the past he didn’t try to mislead anyone but that he could have been more careful with his testimony. A total of 47 had already stepped down.

It has been done before.

About half of the country’s 93 USA attorneys have already left the department.

Dadey also interviewed Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci and Assistant U.S. Attorney Ransom Reynolds.

A statement issued by the Justice Department confirmed the mass cull of senior legal expertise, a move that while not unusual has prompted a backlash from some serving attorneys. Boente is USA attorney for the eastern district of Virginia.

The source says the USA attorney and his colleagues were caught by surprise.

However, a Justice Department spokesperson on Friday stated that Trump has asked the acting U.S. deputy attorney general Dana Boente to decline his resignation.

The source noted that being asked to resign was not surprising in the least. Many prosecutors found out through media reports that they had to resign today.

U.S. Attorney Annette Hayes, the top federal prosecutor for Western Washington, won’t be among them.

Just a few weeks after Trump’s election, Bharara visited Trump Tower to meet with the president elect and emerged to say Trump had asked him to stay on – and Bharara said he planned to do so. “Every holdover from the Obama administration, they need to go”, he said. Rosenstein was appointed by Bush and held his post throughout the Obama administration. He has a reputation of being tough on corruption and crime involving Wall Street.

Trump had reached out to Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer in advance of the meeting, and even asked him for Bharara’s cell phone, the Daily News reported.

Because they were asked to tender their resignations, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions may choose not to accept some of them.