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Who is Lindsey Halligan? From Miss Colorado finalist to being called Trump’s ‘puppet’ to prosecute Comey | World News

Lindsey Halligan’s sudden rise from a Miss Colorado USA finalist to one of the most scrutinised federal prosecutors in America has set off a political and legal firestorm. Installed by President Donald Trump as interim US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, she now finds herself at the centre of the case against former […]

DOJ job ‘terminated’: Why Donald Trump fired a prosecutor obeying court orders? Michele Beckwith’s case explained

File photo: Michele Beckwith and US President Donald Trump Michele Beckwith, a seasoned federal prosecutor who had pursued terrorists, sex traffickers and violent gangs for over 15 years, was abruptly removed from her role as acting US attorney in Sacramento this summer following a dispute over immigration raids.Beckwith had stepped into the post in January […]

‘Fired without reason’: Who is Maurene Comey, Manhattan prosecutor who worked on Epstein files and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs?

The US justice department has fired Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor in Manhattan and the daughter of the former FBI director James Comey, on Wednesday. The reason for her firing was not immediately clear. Comey had worked on several high-profile cases, including the prosecution of financier Jeffrey Epstein as well as rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs. […]