White House Fires Interim US Attorney in New York Hours After Judicial Selection

‘You are fired, Donald Kinsella,’ Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche wrote on social media.

The U.S. Department of Justice in Washington on Jan. 6, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

The White House on Feb. 11 terminated the newly appointed interim U.S. attorney for New York’s Northern District just hours after federal judges chose him to fill the vacancy.

Donald T. Kinsella, 79, who was for many years a federal prosecutor and a criminal chief in the Justice Department, was sworn in during a private ceremony. The appointment by a panel of Northern District judges came after a court ruling that the previous acting U.S. attorney, John A. Sarcone III, had been serving unlawfully.