The Trump administration continues to cull the bad apples from the federal justice system, with two prosecutors who weren’t on board with bringing charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James for mortgage fraud getting the ax.
U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan has fired Elizabeth Yusi, who was the Norfolk office’s top criminal prosecutor, along with her deputy Kristin Bird, with unnamed sources “familiar with the matter” telling ABC News that their ouster was “tied to their resistance to bringing charges against James.”
The pair of firings was first reported by Politico’s Kyle Cheney on Friday.
“Sources tell me and @joshgerstein that veteran federal prosecutor Beth Yusi — with DOJ since 2007 — was fired after resisting the Letitia James indictment. Also Kristin Bird, with EDVA since 2019,” he wrote in a post to X.
Sources tell me and @joshgerstein that veteran federal prosecutor Beth Yusi — with DOJ since 2007 — was fired after resisting the Letitia James indictment. Also Kristin Bird, with EDVA since 2019.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 17, 2025
Also reporting the terminations was notorious Deep State mouthpiece Ken Dilanian, MSNBC’s Justice and Intelligence Correspondent.
Three people familiar with the matter tell @MSNBC that the top two criminal prosecutors in the Norfolk office of the Eastern District of Virginia have been fired after expressing skepticism about the case against the New York Attorney General. With @lawofruby
— Ken Dilanian (@DilanianMSNBC) October 17, 2025
“Three people familiar with the matter tell @MSNBC that the top two criminal prosecutors in the Norfolk office of the Eastern District of Virginia have been fired after expressing skepticism about the case against the New York Attorney General,” he wrote, citing the now customary anonymous sources.
Independent journalist Julie Kelly shed additional light on the firings, reporting that the two were sacked after they were caught leaking to Dilanian.
Sources tell me the prosecutors—Elizabeth Yusi and Kristin Bird—were fired, escorted from the building, and stripped of security clearances for leaking info on sensitive investigative matters to MSNBC and Fusion Ken in particular https://t.co/SgoPSBN5fv
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) October 17, 2025
“Sources tell me the prosecutors—Elizabeth Yusi and Kristin Bird—were fired, escorted from the building, and stripped of security clearances for leaking info on sensitive investigative matters to MSNBC and Fusion Ken in particular,” Kelly wrote in a Friday evening post to X.
James ran for office on a vow to get President Donald Trump and went on to abuse her office to prosecute him on bogus charges after she got elected, but now that her Democrat friends are no longer running the DOJ, she has found that the days of the two-tiered legal system are over.
When powerful people cheat to get better loans, it comes at the expense of hardworking people.
Everyday Americans cannot lie to a bank to get a mortgage, and if they did, our government would throw the book at them.
There simply cannot be different rules for different people.
— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) February 16, 2024
“No one is above the law. The charges as alleged in this case represent intentional, criminal acts and tremendous breaches of the public’s trust,” Halligan said in a statement last week, announcing the federal grand jury indictments on charges of bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution. “The facts and the law in this case are clear, and we will continue following them to ensure that justice is served.”
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