US Attorney in Atlanta abruptly resigns citing 'unforeseen circumstances'

[riversedge]

Source: raw story



January 04, 2021


Citing "unforeseen circumstances," Atlanta-based U.S. Attorney Byung "BJ" Pak announced that he would be resigning effective immediately, Talking Points Memo reported. Pak had said that he intended to stay on until Jan. 20 when U.S. attorneys are typically rehired or dismissed by the incoming administration's attorney general.

It isn't unusual for a U.S. attorney to step down if there are other opportunities before the incoming administration, but it flies in the face of the promise by Pak to stay. The only thing that has changed since his pledge is that President Donald Trump had a phone call with the Georgia secretary of state and demanded that he commit election fraud.

During the call, Trump complained there was a "never-Trumper U.S. attorney" in Atlanta. But the Associated Press noted that "Pak is a longtime Republican who also served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2011 until 2017. He was nominated by Trump to become the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia in 2017."


It prompted several legal experts and former federal prosecutors to speculate about the "unforeseen circumstances." .......................................

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/georgia-federal-prosecutor-quits/

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umm... stay tuned.

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[C_U_L8R]

1. Did someone get asked to do something illegal?

[DonaldsRump]

3. Well, in Trump's case, that would be entirely foreseeable!

Very interesting...

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Do me a favor, number 11,7801 /nt

[grumpyduck]

2. The plot thickens.

Pass the corn starch please.

[kirkuchiyo]

11. Oh please

Everyone knows the proper way to thicken is with a roux...

[Delphinus]

19. Great response!

Made me laugh out loud.

[grumpyduck]

21. Okay, fine, geez, use a roux then.

[lagomorph777]

23. I think in this case, it's spelled "ruse."

[orleans]

34. lol

[FailureToCommunicate]

30. I dunno. With duck, especially a grumpy one, I'd go with cornstarch.

[Cirque du So-What]

12. Sorry, MAGAts used all the cornstarch

to soothe their chapped asses.

[orangecrush]

18. ...

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. My working hypothesis.

Trump doesn't nominate any person for federal office that doesn't have something in their past that he can exploit. Maybe Trump has told him to resign so he can get a MAGAt to take his place and go after the GA. Governor and SoS.

[soothsayer]

7. Yeah to find those 11k votes

But of a telegraphed Hail Mary now that the tape is out.

Maybe more of an onside kick.

[Grasswire2]

13. there's the point -- MOB.

Just like a crooked mayor will get a crooked DA who will hire a crooked medical examiner.

Tainted people are preferable to mob. And what does a mob boss do? Ask someone to do a job that is unsavory/unlawful.

And then, at that moment, the boss owns the capo.

[SWBTATTReg]

14. I suspect that you're right. The MAGA+++maggot currently PINO's whole administration is rift/

with nefarious characters of mostly ill repute, with of course rump at the top of the whole pyramid scheme. Once one block has been pulled out of the pyramid structure, the rest is unstable, and starts to collapse in on itself.

With the resignation, perhaps this is the start of something more major that has been hidden from public view, that more has been going on w/ rump trying all sorts of underhanded tricks to stay in office, that we haven't seen brought to light yet.

I certainly hope, as many people in the know have remarked (and reported on DU), that all of these sedition attempts/coup attempts/etc. of the like, are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. This is not a laughing matter. This is not an issue that you can sweep under the rug. This deserves extensive reporting by the Biden administration of the corruption and other blatant attempts to subvert the constitutional transition of power from the old admin. to the new admin.

[OldBaldy1701E]

29. And

we need to remind the entire country that the rethugs as a whole were complacent if not actively supportive of every single one of them. Not just the politicians, but anyone who claims to be a republican. They allowed this to happen and some of them are actively plotting sedition if not full on rebellion thanks to the rethug elite fueling their descent into the Dunning-Kruger Syndrome. I have said it before, get images of every single MAGA hat wearing idiot you can. We need to know who they are. ALL of them.

[machoneman]

36. You're close. But, more likely, he was asked to indict the Gov, S.O.S. and his subordinate by....

DJT's interim A.G., whoever the hell that is these days. Why? Failure to support Trumpy's weird, wild and false claims.

He refused to do so, hence the immediate retirement.

[Sanity Claws]

6. Someone's name was bleeped out of the released tape

Could it have been this guy's name?

I had assumed that they bleeped Tracy Abrams' name because of the way the Orange One spoke about the person

[blaze]

15. Nah, she was a poll worker...

Long story short:

"Late on Nov. 3, election workers in Fulton County, Georgia, heard that they would be allowed to go home for the night. So they packed uncounted ballots into suitcases and prepared to lock up for the evening.

When word came that they couldn’t leave yet, they dragged the suitcases back out and began counting the ballots again.

That singular scene — of workers taking out suitcases of votes — was then selectively edited and shared by allies of President Trump as a conspiracy theory that election workers had dragged out fraudulent ballots under the cover of night. According to the theory, those suitcases helped swing Georgia’s Electoral College votes to President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr."

For the full story: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ruby-freeman-arrested-by-fbi/

[oldsoftie]

26. The poll worker & her daughter, who also is a poll worker.

the WaPo said they bleeped it because trump was saying unconfirmed rumors.

[Thomas Hurt]

8. LOL, sucker got stiffed by the Pig. Didn't you understand dude...

you were supposed to arrest Sec of State and have him summarily executed for your Dear Leader.

[orangecrush]

20. This.

[MaryMagdaline]

9. Trump asked him to indict the SOS for taping him?

Just speculating

[obamanut2012]

16. I was thinking that, too

[dalton99a]

10. This has nothing to do with Trump's asking him to go after Raffensperger

[NCjack]

17. Here comes RUDY.

[3Hotdogs]

22. So he just got a quick lesson on what it means

to be a Republican.

[SpankMe]

24. I think he should be forced to explain, under oath, why he quit

...or face disbarment. There's something really rotten here. Was there coercion? Was there a threat? If he was subject to a force that could negatively impact the ability of a prosecutor to carry out their job, then we should know what that was.

[dhol82]

39. That's a nice thought.

Doubt it will ever happen.

[apnu]

25. More reliable news source confirms this. Link here.

https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-us-attorney-for-north-georgia-resigns-effective-immediately/UDJNKRKKLRFILC4NC5QKWEUKXM/

[Scruffy1]

27. I think he's just making a smart carreer move.

Former US Attorneys can easily pull in half a million a year, which is why getting the job is such a political plumb. Now, he is in the hot seat with two weeks to go. If he ignores the case, he loses public credibility and if goes forward he loses his chances with big money Republicans for clients. This way he stays out of the mud. We really need a better way of selecting US Attorneys. The whole thing is just a bad system of patronage. Spend a few years on civil service pay and get rich later on because you have insider knowledge of the system. It also leads to short term thinking. None of them give a shit about opening up a case that might take years to be adjudicated. What they want is to get their name out there, so they can rake in bucks when they leave.

[Karadeniz]

35. In the above link, Pak sounds like a decent person. I hope he's leaving so he can testify against

Trump. Pal is Northern GA. The link also said the Middle GA equivalent resigned less than a month ago.

[rocktivity]

28. Pre-emptive fall guy accomplished?

I've always believed that it's entirely possible that Trump only PRETENDS that he's NOT a stable genius.


rocktivity

[ffr]

31. McConnell must be fuming! That's one less PUKE toadie

Perhaps he can nominate some outer puke, like Hawley.

[Marcuse]

32. He was probably told to arrest Stacey, Keisha, Jon, Rafael, Kemp, Raffensperger, etc.

[PoliticAverse]

33. ...

[DemoTex]

37. The national anthem of US troops in Vietnam ..

I can't listen to "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" without hearing the rotorblade slap of a Huey helicopter and smell the aroma of shit burning in JP-4!

[Hekate]

38. He was either threatened with being whacked or told to break the law. Just guessing.

The era of the mean tweet has now passed.