The head of the Justice Department’s (DOJ) Election Crimes Branch resigned after Attorney General William Barr issued a memo to federal prosecutors authorizing them to investigate allegations of voter fraud before the results of the election are certified.
Richard Pilger, in an email to colleagues, said he “must regretfully resign from my role” at the DOJ unit that oversees investigations into voter fraud following Barr’s memo, which authorized prosecutors “to pursue substantial allegations of voting and vote tabulation irregularities prior to the certification of elections in your jurisdictions in certain cases.”
