beSpacific<p>Interim US Attorney Ed Martin announced dismissal this afternoon of roughly 80 <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/federalprosecutors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>federalprosecutors</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/attorneys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>attorneys</span></a> who worked on <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/CapitolRiots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CapitolRiots</span></a> cases <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/jan6th" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jan6th</span></a> in <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DC</span></a> office over past 4 yrs two...cuts amount to about 8% of office’s prosecutors. Combined with a recently announced freeze on <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/hiring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hiring</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/promotions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>promotions</span></a>, the openings will have impacts across office’s <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/civil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civil</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/appellate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>appellate</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SuperiorCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SuperiorCourt</span></a> and <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/violentcrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>violentcrime</span></a> divisions, where some prosecutors had been previously reassigned. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/01/31/jan6-prosecutors-fired-dc-martin/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/20</span><span class="invisible">25/01/31/jan6-prosecutors-fired-dc-martin/</span></a></p>