Trump pulls nomination of former US attorney in charge of Roger Stone case
President Trump pulled the nomination of a former US attorney who oversaw the prosecution of Roger Stone for a top position in the Treasury Department, according to a report.
The withdrawal of Jessie Liu’s nomination was revealed hours after four federal prosecutors withdrew from the Stone case — when the Justice Department overruled them and said it would seek a more lenient sentence for the longtime Trump ally, Fox News reported late Tuesday.
The prosecutors had been seeking a sentence of up to nine years in prison.
Liu, a former US attorney for Washington, DC, also supervised the case of one-time White House national security adviser Michael Flynn, who was found guilty of lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian officials while working for the Trump campaign.
She was scheduled to begin her confirmation hearing in the Senate on Thursday.
If confirmed, Liu, 46, would have served as undersecretary for terrorism and financial crimes.
Trump previously had considered nominating her as associate attorney general, the No. 3 slot in the Justice Department, but she withdrew her name last March.