The Justice Department is cleaning house as Deep State prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia ‘resist’ Trump and leak to the stenographers in the mainstream media.
Two more Deep State prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) have been fired.
Politico reported on Friday that two federal prosecutors in the EDVA – Elizabeth Yusi and Kristin Bird – were fired.
Sources tell me and @joshgerstein that veteran federal prosecutor Beth Yusi — with DOJ since 2007 — was fired after resisting the Letitia James indictment. Also Kristin Bird, with EDVA since 2019.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 17, 2025
MSNBC confirmed the firing of the two prosecutors after New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Three people familiar with the matter tell @MSNBC that the top two criminal prosecutors in the Norfolk office of the Eastern District of Virginia have been fired after expressing skepticism about the case against the New York Attorney General. With @lawofruby
— Ken Dilanian (@DilanianMSNBC) October 17, 2025
According to Julie Kelly, the fired prosecutors were escorted from the building and stripped of security clearances for leaking sensitive information to the media.
Sources tell me the prosecutors—Elizabeth Yusi and Kristin Bird—were fired, escorted from the building, and stripped of security clearances for leaking info on sensitive investigative matters to MSNBC and Fusion Ken in particular https://t.co/SgoPSBN5fv
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) October 17, 2025
Deep State prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia are attacking US Attorney Lindsey Halligan with leaks after she successfully returned an indictment against Letitia James.
Corrupt New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia last Thursday.
According to the DOJ, Letitia James was charged with two crimes: Bank Fraud under 18 U.S.C. Section 1344 and False Statements to a Financial Institution under 18 U.S.C. Section 1014.
The charges are related to a mortgage loan on a property James owns in Norfolk, Virginia, referred to as “the Perrone Property.”
According to the indictment, James was to use the property as her secondary residence and prohibited its use as a timesharing or other shared ownership arrangement or agreement that requires her either to rent the property or give any other person any control over the occupancy or use of the property.
Letitia James treated her Perrone property like an investment property on her Schedule E form and paid taxes on the rental income, further contradicting her claims of secondary residence.
Lindsey Halligan, the newly-sworn in Interim US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia secured the Letitia James indictment by herself last Thursday.
President Trump got the ball rolling last month after he fired the ‘blue slip’ US Attorney in the EDVA.
Last month, President Trump fired Erik Siebert as the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia because he refused to bring charges against Letitia James, Comey, Schiff, and others.
Shortly after Siebert’s firing, Lindsey Halligan indicted former FBI Director James Comey.
The Justice Department fired high-ranking prosecutor Maya Song after top national security prosecutor Michael Ben’Ary was axed.
Michael Ben’Ary whined in a letter to colleagues after he was fired and encouraged them to continue to defy Trump appointees.
More indictments – and more firings – on coming down soon.