Sadie Gurman
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Sadie Gurman
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I cover the Justice Department and federal law enforcement for @WSJ. I’m from Denver. Story ideas welcome: [email protected]
- NEW: Trump also pushed DOJ to ask the Supreme Court to invalidate Biden’s win, but his own appointees refused to file what they viewed as a legally baseless lawsuit. An outside lawyer working for Trump even drafted a brief for DOJ to file. w/ @JessBravin
- More: A senior Justice Department official, at the behest of the White House, called Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney Byung J. Pak and told him he needed to step down because he wasn’t pursuing vote-fraud allegations to Trump’s satisfaction. w/ @aviswanatha
- Director Wray has arrived at DOJ to give Garland one of his first briefings on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot investigation.
- SCOOP: FBI search at Mar-a-Lago removed 11 sets of classified information, photo binders, handwritten notes, according to copy of inventory reviewed by @WSJ. W/ @learyreports @aviswanatha wsj.com/articles/fbi-r…
- NEW: Marc Short was not the only Pence advisor who testified before a grand jury in connection w/ the Justice Department's expanding Jan. 6 probe — so did Pence's legal counsel, Greg Jacob. Prosecutors asked about Eastman, Giuliani & more. w/@aviswanatha
- New: The @FBI searched Mar-a-Lago in part because agents believed there was still more classified info there after @USNatArchives earlier retrieved 15 boxes of WH documents from the home. Agents hauled away ~ 10 more boxes. W/ @learyreports @aviswanatha
- Just in: Kash Patel, a close Trump aide, is set to soon testify before a federal grand jury probing the handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after receiving immunity. W/ @learyreports
- The suspected attacker has espoused extreme right wing views on social media, including conspiracy theories about Covid-19, according to one of the law enforcement officials. W/ @nataliewsj @ZushaElinson
- SCOOP: AG Garland scooped ice cream for Justice Department employees in the Great Hall on this balmy afternoon. 🍨
- New: After some confusion, ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen will be released from federal prison due to coronavirus concerns and is expected to serve the rest of his 3-year sentence from home.
- Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker’s inaugural appearance in the Great Hall.
- NEW: White House officials pushed Atlanta’s top federal prosecutor to resign before Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoffs because Trump was upset he wasn’t doing enough to investigate the president’s allegations of election fraud. w/ @aviswanatha @cammcwhirter
