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Sharecopy linkFormer U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman lost his job over the weekend after he refused to side with a Justice Department move late last week to criticize New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, the Wall Street Journal exclusively just after noon Monday.&nbsp; Yet the actual significance of the temporally-suggestible, potential-smoking-gun incident was unclear, the report says.Here’s how it reportedly went down. The DOJ asked Berman to “sign a letter criticizing” de Blasio for enforcing social distancing rules during “religious gatherings” but not during “street protests” that arose after the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, the Journal , citing anonymous “people familiar with the matter.”&nbsp; Berman “voiced strong objections to the letter, particularly its assertions that Mr. de Blasio imposed a double standard, and described the letter as a political stunt that would strain relations between his office and the city, two of the people said.”The letter was reportedly never sent. It was “meant to be signed” by Berman and by , who heads the DOJ’s civil rights division.A scientific debate rages over whether may result in an additional spread of the novel coronavirus. The virus appears to spread indoors , and coronavirus infections have trended downward in Chicago, . , nearly half of all states in America are reporting an uptick in COVID-19 cases.The letter’s reported content and intent are logically in line with Barr and by the DOJ into litigation commenced by religious entities which are in turn unhappy about coronavirus-related restrictions on worship.DOJ has “repeatedly said that no single incident prompted Mr. Berman’s removal,” the Journal reported. It also noted that Barr and Berman did not directly communicate about the letter.Berman oversaw the prosecution of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. His office also brought criminal cases against Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s former business associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman. Berman’s office is . And under Berman’s leadership, SDNY famously brought sex-trafficking charges against the since-deceased Jeffrey Epstein. Nor of Turkish state-owned bank Halkbank be forgotten.The Journal went on to pen this beauty about the frayed Barr-Berman relationship:[T]wo people familiar with the matter said Mr. Berman’s refusal [to sign the letter] aggravated Mr. Barr, who already viewed Mr. Berman as obstinate and difficult to work with. He had been seeking a replacement for Mr. Berman, and when he learned in recent weeks that Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton was interested in the top prosecutor’s job&nbsp;he agreed that putting him in that role was a good idea, people familiar with that decision said.Berman’s from what is widely held as the most critical federal prosecutor’s office in the country came about after a Friday Barr-Berman meeting, a telephone call from Barr to Berman late Friday night, a Friday night comment from Barr that Berman had stepped down, a subsequent statement from Berman that he had not stepped down, a letter from Barr stating President Donald Trump had fired Berman. Ultimately, this ended with Berman stepping down. Berman’s top deputy within SDNY, Audrey Strauss,All relevant spokespersons declined to comment, the Journal reported.[Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images]Have a tip we should know?Aaron Keller - Deputy Editor-in-ChiefPlease enable JavaScript to view the

Sharecopy linkFormer U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman lost his job over the weekend after he refused to side with a Justice Department move late last week to criticize New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, the Wall Street Journal exclusively just after noon Monday.&nbsp; Yet the actual significance of the temporally-suggestible, potential-smoking-gun incident was unclear, the report says.Here’s how it reportedly went down. The DOJ asked Berman to “sign a letter criticizing” de Blasio for enforcing social distancing rules during “religious gatherings” but not...

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