PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Maine’s top federal prosecutor is among those being asked to resign by month’s end by the Biden administration.
U.S. Attorney Halsey Frank confirmed to the Portland Press Herald that he has been asked to step down, effective Feb. 28. He was appointed four years ago by then-President Donald Trump.
It’s fairly customary for the U.S. attorneys to leave their positions after a new president is in office, but the departures are not automatic.
In 2017, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked for the resignations of 46 U.S. attorneys who were holdovers from the Obama administration. That included then-U.S. Attorney Thomas Delahanty II in Maine.
One exception in the call for Trump’s appointees to resign is the U.S. attorney in Delaware who’s overseeing the federal tax probe involving Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. The prosecutor will stay.
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