On Friday night, the Attorney General William Barr announced that Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, will be stepping down. His replacement will be Jay Clayton...

Legal experts were shocked when the Trump administration announced on Friday night that the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York would be replaced. Preet Bharara, who preceded Geoffrey...

On Friday evening, U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman of the Southern District of New York — a key figure in the investigations against President Donald Trump’s business associates — announced he was...

The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York denied an announcement from Bill Barr’s Department of Justice that he was stepping down. “I learned in a press release from the Attorney...

Bizarre events unfolded on Friday night over the leadership of the Southern District of New York. The federal prosecutors’ office in Manhattan, called the “Sovereign District of New York” for its...

Attorney General Bill Barr apparently thought he could buffalo U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman out of job, but the lead federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York is refusing to go down...

Calling it both “surreal” and “inexplicable,” a former prosecutor previously assigned to the Southern District of New York hammered Attorney General Bill Barr over his attempt to fire lead prosecutor...

On CNN Saturday, former homicide prosecutor Paul Callan said that President Donald Trump will not be able to easily remove SDNY prosecutor Geoffrey Berman if he doesn’t intend to resign. “They are...

On MSNBC Saturday, former federal prosecutor and Westchester DA candidate Mimi Rocah said that if the Justice Department tries to lock out SDNY Attorney Geoffrey Berman, other prosecutors in his...

Appearing on MSNBC’s “AM JOY” with host Joy Reid, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance said that Attorney General Bill Barr’s bungled attempt to oust the prosecutor heading the Justice Department’s SDNY...

On Saturday, in a lengthy Twitter threat, former U.S. Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman laid out the legal consequences if President Donald Trump tries to fire SDNY attorney...

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, the attempted firing of Southern District of New York lead prosecutor Geoffrey Berman by Attorney General Bill Barr was long in coming and began...

Attorney General Bill Barr on Saturday sent a letter to Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman claiming that President Donald Trump has fired him. “I was surprised and quite...

The president of the United States on Saturday disputed his own Attorney General’s account of the controversial firing of a top federal prosecutor. On Saturday, Attorney General Bill Barr said that...

President Donald Trump on Saturday complicated his legal standing by denying that he had fired Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman. Barr wrote in a publicly released letter to...

The bizarre saga over who is in control of the DOJ’s Southern District of New York continued on Saturday. On Friday evening, the Department of Justice put out a statement claiming that U.S. Attorney...

The question of who is leading the DOJ’s Southern District of New York appeared to be settled on Saturday after Georffrey Berman announced he would be immediately vacating his position. There was a...