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Senior reporter, Department of Justice @BLaw | @UMWallaceHouse alum | bpenn@bloomberglaw.com | Signal at benpenn.06
Washington, DC Joined October 2010
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I went long on a new form of Trump DOJ turmoil: Top Las Vegas prosecutor Sigal Chattah repeatedly bypassed Main Justice recusal orders, pushed cases for ex-clients & friends, targeted political foe & much more.
"It's charitable to call it chaos."
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news.bloomberglaw.com Trump’s Chief Nevada Prosecutor Shirks DOJ Orders, Boosts Allies President Donald Trump’s top Nevada prosecutor, Sigal Chattah, pushed to launch investigations at the behest of former clients and friends while repeatedly bypassing Justice Department orders...
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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn
If Gaiser is confirmed to bench, it would leave DOJ without yet another Senate-confirmed leader and an OLC vacancy with massive implications for executive branch oversight responses
Olivia Alafriz @oliviaalafriz 15h
A newsy start to the week: A DOJ official whose only tie to Texas appears to be a 5th Cir. clerkship may be under consideration for a seat on a Texas district court as Republicans rush to fill remaining vacancies.

More on Elliot Gaiser's nomination here:
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/do…
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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn
Great reporting, and reason to re-up news that AG Blanche forced out DOJ’s Nat Sec chief yesterday who’d been serving as a check on media leaks probes news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/bl…
news.bloomberglaw.com Blanche Ousts National Security Head After Media Leak Disputes Attorney General Todd Blanche forced out the Justice Department’s top national security official after the two clashed over the pace of White House-directed media leak investigations, according to...
Sadie Gurman @sgurman 3d
One of Trump’s biggest frustrations with Wiles, according to administration officials, is that she and the Justice Department weren’t doing enough to go after people seen as leaking classified material, to jail reporters who publish such material and to prosecute his opponents.
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SCOOP: AG Todd Blanche pushed out DOJ's top national security official John Eisenberg today after numerous frustrations, including stalled progress on Trump demands for subpoenaing reporters to name sources in stories critical of White House news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/bl…
news.bloomberglaw.com Blanche Ousts National Security Head After Media Leak Disputes Attorney General Todd Blanche forced out the Justice Department’s top national security official after the two clashed over the pace of White House-directed media leak investigations, according to...
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Consecutive days of senior DOJ Trump loyalists stepping down: Today's resignation is from Miami US Attorney Jason Reding Quinones, who oversaw the stalled 'grand conspiracy' probe of Trump's adversaries news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/tr…
news.bloomberglaw.com Trump Ally Reding Quiñones Resigns as Miami’s Top Prosecutor Southern Florida US Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones has resigned from the Justice Department following a tumultous tenure in which he oversaw a “grand conspiracy” probe of Trump’s adversaries that...