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Barr threatened to outright fire Berman unless he stepped down and take another position. Berman set it up not to quit until his competent AUSA took over his job.
Geoffrey Berman, the former top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, was expected to say in closed-door testimony today that Attorney General Bill Barr repeatedly urged him to take another job, warned him that getting fired would not be good for his resume or job prospects and steered him toward a high-level Justice Department post in DC.
Inside Geoffrey Berman's closed-door testimony
In his opening statement obtained by Axios, he says Attorney General Bill Barr repeatedly urged him to take another job.
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