'Open season for corruption': FBI shuts down public corruption unit that investigated Trump - MSNBC

[Eugene]

May 15, 2025 #trump #pambondi #FBI
Andrew Weissmann, Former top official at the Department of Justice and Melissa Murray, NYU Law Professor, who clerked for Justice Sotomayor while serving at the U.S. Court of Appeals joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss the news that the FBI is shutting down the Public Corruption Unit at the Washington D.C. office which shows what the Trump Administration's priorities which is leaning into using the Trump name to make a profit in the it’s second term.

Here's how one former Justice Department official put it, "This is yet another signt that it's open season for political corruption. The administration gutted the public integrity section, neutered the U.S. Attorney's Office in DC and is now shuttering the FBI's preeminent federal public corruption squad. This isn't what the voters had in mind when they said drain the swamp."

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Earlier DU thread: FBI folds the public corruption squad that aided Jack Smith's Trump investigations

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1. Of course they did.