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Geoffrey Berman, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, arrives at his office in New York on Saturday, June 20, 2020. The Justice Department moved abruptly Friday night to oust Berman who is overseeing prosecutions of President Trump’s allies and an investigation of Rudy Giuliani. But Berman said he was refusing to leave his post. (Kevin Hagen/AP) Read...

The Justice Department abruptly announced late Friday night that it would replace the U.S. attorney in Manhattan who oversaw probes into several allies of President TrumpDonald TrumpMcCarthy to offer UC request to revisit foreign spending in omnibus GOP senator on Trump pardons: ‘This is rotten to the core’ Trump pardons Manafort, Stone and Charles Kushner in latest round MORE[2][3][4][5][6][1], though...

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