The US prosecutor Erik Siebert informed employees in his office in Alexandria, Virginia, on Friday that he intends to resign, according to Fuentes, after President Donald Trump said he wants to leave him.
ABC News has reported that Trump was expected to fire Siebert after investigators could not find incriminating evidence of mortgage fraud against the New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to Fuentes.
Trump’s officials had pressed Siebert to present charges against James, despite the fact that the investigators did not find clear evidence that he committed a crime, the sources said.
“It seems to me that it is very guilty of something, but I really don’t know,” Trump told journalists at the Oval office on Friday.
When asked about Siebert, Trump said he wanted it “outside the position because the two Democratic senators of Virginia supported his nomination. Trump nominated Siebert for the position in May, and has served as an interim American prosecutor since the inauguration of Trump.
“When I saw that it was approved by those two men, I said, pull it, because it can’t be good,” Trump said. “When I knew they voted for him, I said, I really don’t want it.”
Siebert’s departure leaves one of the most important US prosecutor’s offices in the nation without a leader, according to Fuentes, since Siebert’s deputy has already left his position and intends to continue working in the office as a line prosecutor. With its vacant position, there is currently no response to who will specifically take over the office and if any of its lawyers have any authority to continue regular tax activity.
Erik Siebert, an interim prosecutor of the United States for the East district of Virginia, speaks during a press conference about a MS-13 gang leader who was arrested in an operation by the National Security Task Force of Virginia, at the FBI Manassas field office, on March 27, 2025, in Manassas, VA.
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The investigation into James began in April when Bill Ablicte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, sent to the Department of Justice a criminal derivation claiming that James falsified the records related to his 2023 purchase of a house in Virginia.
After investigating the accusations for five months and interviewing 15 witnesses, the researchers could not find clear evidence that James falsified to knowing records to obtain better loan terms, ABC News reported earlier this week.
James has denied irregularities, and his lawyer, in a statement on Friday, described the dismissal of Siebert a “shameless attack on the rule of law.”
“Shooting people until they find someone who folds the law to carry out their revenge has been the president’s pattern, and it is illegal,” said Abbe Lowell on Friday morning in a statement to ABC News. “Punishing this prosecutor, a Trump designated one, for doing his job sends a clear and chilling message that anyone who dares to defend the policy law will face the same destiny.”
Siebert’s forcing because he refused to accuse one of Trump’s political rivals marks an escalation in what the president’s critics have called a compensation campaign, with ongoing investigations that also addresses Senator Adam Schiff and the governor of the Federal Lisa Cook Federal Reserve.
Trump has repeatedly accused James, who successfully brought a Civil Fraud Case Against him last year and leads multiple demands challenging the policies of his administration, of attacking him for political reasons, calling it “biased and corrupt.”
The attorney general Letitia James is in the Court Chamber during the civil fraud of former President Donald Trump in the Supreme Court of New York, on January 11, 2024, in New York.
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James is “a horror show that ran on the basis that he was going to get Trump before she knew something about me,” Trump said during his civil fraud judgment in 2023. “This has to do with the electoral, simple and simple interference. We have a corrupt attorney general in this state.”
After a three -month trial, a New York judge concluded that Trump and his family had committed a Decade of business fraud By exaggerating the value of its properties to obtain favorable loan terms, multiplying Trump and their children almost half a billion dollars. Subsequently, an appeals court launched the financial sanction, but confirmed the discovery that Trump committed fraud.
Siebert, a former Washington Police officer, the DC Metropolitan Police Department graduated from the Law Faculty in 2009 and has worked as an assistant to the United States Prosecutor in the Eastern District in the Eastern District of Virginia since 2010. In addition to serving as a line prosecutor, Siebert led the Office’s Drug Crime Task Force and supervised the division of the Richmond office of 2019 to 2024.
Siebert began serving as an interim prosecutor of the United States on January 21 after the late Jessica Aber, who directed the office since 2021-25, resigned after the inauguration of President Trump. Both of the Democratic senators of Virginia, Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, recommended Trump to Trump in April, and Trump nominated him for the position in May.
“Mr. Siebert has dedicated his career to protect public safety, since his work with the Washington Metropolitan Police Department, DC, until its management of violent crimes and traffic of firearms as a line assistant of the United States in the Eastern District of Virginia. With his experience and dedication to the service, Mr. Siebert is equipped to handle the challenges and the important obligations associated with this position. His experience in May, which is made an experience in May de Mayer in May. nomination.
