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DOJ Public Integrity Section’s employee count slashed, remit changed 

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Julie DiMauro

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Prosecutors in unit told to take details to other positions within DOJ, current cases to be reassigned to US attorneys’ offices around the country.

NBC News has reported that a few sources, speaking on the condition of anonymity, indicated to them that the administration of President Donald Trump is gutting the Justice Department unit that oversees prosecutions of public officials accused of corruption.

The unit, the Public Integrity Section, has overseen some of the

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