Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) today raised questions over the firing of an additional U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, Debra Yang, the AP is reporting.
"I have questions about Debra Yang's departure and I can't answer those questions right at this time," Feinstein was quoted as saying. "Was she asked to resign, and if so, why? We have to ferret that out."
Yang, who now works for a private law firm, has maintained that she left her Federal post on her own accord.
A spokesman for the Department of Justice confirmed that Yang was not asked to leave.
"About five months before Yang's departure, her office had opened an investigation into ties between Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., and a lobbyist," the AP reports. "Gibson Dunn, the firm that hired her, is also the firm where Lewis' legal team works, but government rules required that she step aside in that case or any other she was involved with while a government prosecutor." More on the story.
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