At least seven senior prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, including key figures in Jan. 6 prosecutions, have been demoted to entry-level positions under the new Trump-appointed interim U.S. attorney.
Ed Martin, appointed interim U.S. attorney by President Trump, informed several supervisors that they were being reassigned to handle misdemeanor cases or work on lower-level local prosecutions.
Among those demoted were the lead prosecutors in the seditious conspiracy cases against the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys—two of the highest-profile Jan. 6 prosecutions—who were reassigned to D.C. Superior Court cases. The chief of the Capitol Siege Section, Greg Rosen, was also demoted following Trump’s decision to disband the unit and pardon more than 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington handles both federal and local cases. One law enforcement source called it “the biggest f— you that you can receive,” noting that many of the affected prosecutors had started their careers handling similar misdemeanor cases as junior attorneys.
“They really rubber-roomed a lot of people,” one federal law enforcement official said, describing the sweeping personnel changes.
