It was at the end of the afternoon on the last Friday in June, and the assistant American prosecutor Mike Gordon was in his office in Tampa, Florida, interviewing a victim for a next trial via Zoom.
In addition to a special agent, Gordon was preparing the victim to witness a case in the Ministry of Justice against a lawyer who said the Ministry of Justice had won clients.
He was struck at the door, Gordon later told NBC News, and he did not respond; At the office of the American lawyer in the Florida intermediary district, there was a culture of not only emerging when the door is closed. But the door opened, and there was the office director, Ashen in the face.
The office director is responsible for security, and Gordon thought for a moment that something could have happened to his family. Gordon attenuated the zoom call and the office director set him a piece of paper.
It was a letter from a page signed by the Attorney General Pam Bondi. He had been terminated from the federal service.
“No explanation. No early warning. No description of the cause,” said Gordon in an interview. “Now I knew why. I knew it should be my work on January 6. ”
Gordon had been a main lawyer for the trial in the headquarters of the Capitol of the American prosecutor’s office in Washington, who continued alleged rioters involved in the January 6 attack on the American Capitol. His title reflected some of the highly publicized cases he had taken during the January 6 investigation and the role he played by helping other federal prosecutors.
At the time of his dismissal, Gordon had worked for a long time on other cases at home in Florida. He had recently been responsible for co-directing a case against two people accused of having stolen more than $ 100 million to a medical trust for disabled people, as well as workers and injured retirees. Only two days before his dismissal, he had received an “exceptional” note on his performance exam.
Now, with two other recently dismissed employees of the Ministry of Justice, Gordon repelled, continuing the Trump administration late yesterday during their layoffs. The prosecution argues that the normal procedures of federal employees should undergo to combat their grievances – the Merit Systems Protection Board – are fundamentally broken due to the actions of the Trump administration.
