Geoffrey S. Berman

a new book by Geoffrey S. Berman, who was U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2018 to June 2020.
=“The Department of Justice was not a private law firm dedicated to the president’s personal interests,” Berman writes =
Holding the Line: Inside the Nation’s Preeminent US Attorney’s Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department” by Geoffrey Berman - Penguin Random House, 2022. 
Berman describes the episode in which Barr summoned him to Manhattan’s Pierre hotel, “a swanky place where even standard rooms can cost a thousand bucks a night or more.” Barr told Berman that he wanted to replace him at the Southern District of New York with Jay Clayton, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Barr even offered Berman a job he apparently thought would be an enticing sweetener — head of the DOJ’s Civil Division, which represents the United States in all civil lawsuits, a big job, but far from the criminal fray. With that job, Barr told Berman, he could “attract clients and build a book of business” for whenever Berman left the DOJ for the private sector. Only after offering him the job did Barr ask whether Berman had any experience in civil law, revealing that the attorney general was not always concerned withthe best interests of the department he was entrusted to lead.
Though Berman refused to resign, ……
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* Justice Department pressured former US attorney to bring cases against Trump enemies, Geoffrey Berman says Geoffrey Berman made the allegations in his new book. ABC-News by George Stephanopoulos and Aaron Katersky September 12, 2022 
* [https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/09/09/former-us-attorney-dishes-how-he-held-line-against-trump-white-house/ www.washingtonpost.com 22/9/9
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* Southern District of New York