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The director of electoral crimes of the United States Department of Justice, Richard Pilger, resigned on the order of the attorney general, William Barr, to investigate the assumption fraud in the presidential elections.
«Having become familiar with the new regulation and its ramifications (…) unfortunately I must resign my position as director of the Electoral Crimes Division“Pilger announced in an internal communication leaked to the US media.
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Pilger further regretted that Barr’s order “it repeals a 40-year rule of non-interference (federal) in electoral fraud investigations during the period prior to the certification of the elections.
This resignation comes after Barr criticized the role of Pilger’s division on Monday and instructed all Justice Department prosecutors to investigate alleged irregularities in the past presidential elections before the results are final.
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“I authorize to investigate substantive allegations of voting or voting tabulation irregularities prior to the certification of elections in their jurisdictions in certain cases, as I have already done in specific instances,” Barr said in a memo to his prosecutors.
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“Such investigations and reviews can be carried out if there are clear and apparently credible allegations of wrongdoing that, if true, could potentially affect the outcome of a federal election in a particular state,” he added.
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The president’s attorney general (Minister of Justice), Donald Trump, also instructed his prosecutors to discard complaints of cases that, if true, would not affect the final result, since these can be resumed once the results are certified.
In the memo, Barr expressed concern about the Department’s existing protocols for such an investigation, which specifically state that they should not be activated until the results are official.
