[Pam Bondi] said the [Weaponization Working Group] would focus on investigations into Trump conducted by former special counsel Jack Smith and his staff; Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James; and any "improper" investigations into the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. But after a year, the group has not produced anything publicly.
It's not the kind of money the DOJ typically seeks to recoup, but James isn't just any alleged fraudster. A prominent anti-Trump gadfly, James brought a civil case against Donald Trump and his company in 2022 and won, resulting in a $500 million fine being levied against the president (he later successfully appealed the fine and has so far paid nothing, although the ruling maintained his liability).
Brian Driscoll, the former acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), along with two other former senior FBI officials, sued the Trump administration and FBI Director Kash Patel on Wednesday, alleging they were dismissed for political reasons. The three officials said in the lawsuit, filed in a Washington DC federal court, that they were fired by FBI Director Kash Patel in a "campaign of retribution" to purge officials considered disloyal to President Donald Trump.
