Berman book prompts Senate panel to investigate Trump DoJ interference
by Martin Pengelly in New York from US news | The Guardian on (#63K1Q)
Judiciary committee notifies justice department of investigation into claims made by fired US attorney Geoffrey Berman
The US Senate judiciary committee has said it will investigate claims made in a recent book that allies of Donald Trump politically interfered with a prominent US attorney's office.
William Barr, Donald Trump's second attorney general, fired Geoffrey Berman from the powerful southern district of New York (SDNY) five months before the 2020 election. In a memoir - Holding the Line: Inside the Nation's Preeminent US Attorney's Office and its Battle with the Trump Justice Department - which is published in the US on Tuesday, Berman alleges interference both on behalf of Trump allies and against Trump enemies.
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