Second DOJ official who investigated Trump reassigned to immigration crackdown
Multiple Justice Department officials were told they were being removed from their jobs and re-assigned to a new effort to take legal action against so-called sanctuary cities.
Half a dozen senior career Justice Department officials have been told they are being removed from their jobs and reassigned to a new effort to take legal action against so-called sanctuary cities, four DOJ officials familiar with the matter told NBC News.
The sources spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal personnel matters.
Two of those reassigned, one senior DOJ official said, were Corey Amundson, who had been head of the public integrity section, and George Toscas, who had been deputy assistant attorney general in the national security division.
It was not previously known that Amundson had been reassigned. The public integrity section prosecutes political corruption and played a role in both DOJ criminal cases against the former president.
NBC News had previously reported that Toscas had been removed from his job. He played a key role in pushing for the 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago for classified documents that Donald Trump, then a former president, had declined to return to the National Archives.
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