President Donald Trump's top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., demoted several senior leaders to entry-level positions on Friday as he continued his shakeup of one of the Justice Department's most crucial offices,

Several senior leaders in Washington's federal prosecutors office have been demoted to jobs handling misdemeanors or other low-level matters, in the latest move by President Donald Trump's U.S. attorney to roil the office that oversaw the massive prosecution of the U.

President Donald Trump's top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C. on Friday demoted top leadership serving in the fraud, public corruption and civil rights section on Friday, sending them back to serve in entry-level positions,

At least seven top prosecutors inside the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia — including some involved in Jan. 6 prosecutions — were demoted to entry-level positions by the new Trump-appointed interim U.

Several top prosecutors in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, D.C., were demoted Friday to low-level positions handling minor crimes, another step in a campaign of retribution against Justice Department officials perceived as enemies by the Trump administration.