Richard Pilger, the Head of the DOJ Crimes Branch resigned as per November 10, 2020 article here . Guess he didn't understand his responsibilities even though he was the editor of "Federal Prosecution of Election Offenses", Eighth Edition, December 2017, Edited by: Richard C. Pilger, Director Election Crimes Branch Public Integrity Section presented here and referred to as FPEO in this post.
Within his document is stated:
"Justice Department supervision over the enforcement of all criminal statutes and prosecutive theories involving corruption of the election process, criminal patronage violations, and campaign financing crimes is delegated to the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section. This Headquarters’ consultation policy is set forth in the U.S. DEP’T OF JUSTICE, U.S. ATTORNEYS’ MANUAL (USAM), Section 9-85.210. In 1980, the Election Crimes Branch was created within the Public Integrity Section to manage this supervisory responsibility. The Branch is headed by a Director and staffed on a case-by-case basis with Section prosecutors experienced in handling the investigation and prosecution of election crimes."
If you note, the FPEO is an INTERNAL ONLY document that used as a guideline and not a restrictive or firmly defined process that the DOJ may take. You will also find some exceptions in the Pilger FPEO document that he also agreed with.
Sounds to me that Mr. Pilger didn't care about the Constitution and the integrity of voting as much as the Trump supporters and only in his "master piece" he created that holds no water even -- pen in one hand and sieve in other. One must challenge why he wrote such a document in the first place!
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