Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has called for an investigation into the firing of U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman. The Senator sent a letter to the Justice Department inspector general to investigate the ousting of Berman by President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr.
“As the Attorney General was not truthful when he initially represented that U.S. Attorney Berman was ’stepping down,' this corrupt firing cannot be explained by cause and gives the impression that the President interfered in ongoing criminal investigations into himself and his associates,” Schumer wrote Monday. “To help restore confidence in and prevent further abuses to the administration of justice, the American people deserve to know the truth,” wrote Schumer.
