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   From: leroysoetoro@americans-first.com   
      
   https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/turmoil-virginia-us-attorneys-office-   
   comey-indictment-2/story?id=126138109   
      
   One of the preeminent U.S. attorney's offices in the country is facing   
   mounting turmoil in the wake of the move last week by a Trump-installed   
   prosecutor to indict former FBI Director James Comey.   
      
   Two top attorneys in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District   
   of Virginia have been fired from their jobs in recent days, sources told   
   ABC, and lawyers in the office believe their removals were driven by   
   political vengeance on behalf of President Donald Trump.   
      
   The office's top national security official, Michael Ben'Ary, was informed   
   Wednesday of his termination just hours after a MAGA-aligned activist   
   posted on social media about his past work in the office of former Biden-   
   era Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, sources told ABC News.   
      
   Ben'Ary, who had risen through ranks of federal law enforcement over the   
   past 20 years, was the lead attorney on the case of Mohammad Sharifullah -   
   - an alleged plotter who is accused of assisting ISIS-K in the bombing of   
   Abbey Gate whose case and extradition to the U.S. was announced by Trump   
   in a joint address to Congress earlier this year. Sharifullah is set to   
   stand trial in early December.   
      
   Another prosecutor, Maya Song, the former deputy to Erik Siebert -- who   
   was ousted two weeks ago under pressure from Trump -- was fired last   
   Friday by Siebert's replacement Lindsey Halligan, sources familiar with   
   the matter told ABC News.   
      
   Song had opted to accept a demotion as a line prosecutor in the wake of   
   Siebert's resignation after he resisted pressure to bring charges against   
   both Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, sources previously   
   told ABC News.   
      
   It's not immediately clear whether Song was given a specific rationale for   
   her removal, but it followed a torrent of criticism from right-wing   
   influencers who had similarly highlighted her previous service during the   
   Biden administration under Monaco.   
      
   In a Truth Social post last week, Trump demanded Microsoft immediately   
   fire Monaco from her recently announced role as the company's president of   
   global affairs, citing what he alleged was her direct involvement in the   
   prosecutions he faced after leaving his first term in office.   
      
   Ben'Ary and Song's removals are likely to further sink morale inside the   
   already embattled office, sources told ABC. The office, considered among   
   the most important prosecutorial offices in the country, handles the bulk   
   of the federal government's most sensitive national security cases.   
      
   ABC News has reached out to the DOJ, Ben'Ary and Song for comment.   
      
      
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