The Trump administration is gutting a division at the Department of Justice that oversees prosecutions of public officials accused of corruption.
Only a small number of employees at the Public Integrity Section, which oversees some of the country’s most high-profile and sensitive prosecutions, will remain as prosecutors are being ordered to take other roles within the department. Cases currently assigned to the unit will be reassigned to U.S. attorneys’ offices across the country.
Near the end of former President Joe Biden’s administration earlier this year, there were about 30 prosecutors in the division, according to the Associated Press. The Public Integrity Section was created in 1976 after the Watergate scandal to oversee criminal prosecutions of federal public corruption cases.
Throughout the 2024 campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump repeatedly claimed the Justice…
