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From the New York Post: The Trump administration has reportedly reassigned more than a dozen career Justice Department officials, including one who played a central role in pushing for the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.
The new assignments — given to at least 15 longtime officials — will see the federal employees remain within DOJ but in roles where they are expected to wield less influence on the department’s major decisions, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
Some officials were notified they were being transferred just hours after President Trump was sworn in on Monday, according to the outlet.
Deputy Assistant Attorney General George Toscas, who has served in the DOJ’s National Security Division for nearly 20 years, is reportedly among the officials being moved.
Toscas was a key figure in the DOJ’s push for the August 2022 FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, after the 45th president allegedly defied the National Archives’ repeated requests for White House documents from his first term in office.
The report notes that Toscas has now been reassigned to the DOJ’s new Office of Sanctuary Cities Enforcement.
The Washington Post notes that by simply reassigning the officials to less influential roles, the move dodges problems regarding legal protections afforded to career staffers.
Now it is up to the reassigned officials as to whether they will stay in the new positions or decided to leave the agency.
Removed from position.
George Toscas, veteran deputy ass’t att’y general in DOJ nat’l security, helping to oversee major terrorism & espionage investigations, a key supervisor in charged probes including Hillary Clinton, Trump hoarding of classified docs at his Mar-a-Lago. pic.twitter.com/WS9XDAVHNE— Blanche Victoria (@tammytabby) January 22, 2025
The Trump administration has removed and reassigned several top career officials in the Justice Department’s national security and criminal divisions, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. https://t.co/jzgm0BWGkl
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 22, 2025
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