In yet another lawsuit filed by FBI agents who were fired over past work on investigations related to President Donald Trump, one agent described a brief and unsuccessful effort by DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro to save his job.
When he got wind of his impending firing, the unnamed agent called a federal prosecutor in Pirro’s office, according to the lawsuit filed in Washington, DC, federal court. The two had been working on a public corruption case, having recently briefed Pirro, and the agent told the prosecutor he would no longer be on the case.
The prosecutor told the agent they would “talk to some people,” the lawsuit says.
That same day, when he arrived at the Washington FBI field office, the agent was told he was going to be fired and, while waiting to be let go, had his firearm confiscated.
The agent was later told there would “be no firings today” as someone “had called on [his] behalf,” the lawsuit says.
But the next day, the agent was fired, according to the lawsuit.
He was told, according to the filing, that Pirro had intervened on his behalf and was why he “was initially spared.”
Pirro, the lawsuit says, asked FBI leadership to tell the agent “that she was sorry for this process and appreciated all the work [he] had done.”
The two agents say they were barely involved in the 2020 election investigation and were given conflicting answers as to why, exactly, they were fired. Both agents remain unemployed, according to the lawsuit.
CNN has reached out to Pirro’s office and the FBI for comment.
