Attorney General Pam Bondi fires top Justice Department ethics official

Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired 1 of the apical vocation officials tasked with advising her and different elder Justice Department officials of their ethical obligations, an authoritative acquainted with the dismissal confirmed to ABC News Monday.

Joseph Tirrell connected Monday took to LinkedIn to station quality of his termination, including a photograph of his termination announcement which provided nary reasoning for his firing.

"Until Friday evening, I was the elder morals lawyer astatine the Department of Justice liable for advising the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General straight connected national worker ethics," Tirrell said successful the post. "I was besides liable for the day-to-day operations of the morals programme crossed the Department."

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The removal missive from Bondi mirrors that of letters sent to aggregate different DOJ employees fired successful caller weeks, including astatine slightest 20 officials who supported erstwhile peculiar counsel Jack Smith's squad successful his prosecutions of President Donald Trump.

Tirrell did not respond to a petition for remark from ABC News. A DOJ spokesperson declined to remark erstwhile contacted by ABC News.

Tirrell's station outlined an extended resume successful nationalist service, opening with his clip arsenic a United States Naval Officer earlier helium joined the FBI successful 2006 successful assorted ethics-related posts.

In 2023 helium was appointed arsenic the manager of the DOJ's Ethics Office, which advises employees of the rules governing fiscal disclosures, conflicts of involvement and instances mandating recusal. among others.

It's unclear what specifically prompted Tirrell's firing, though respective erstwhile officials noted that helium was starring the bureau erstwhile Smith disclosed, aft departing the DOJ, that Smith had accepted $140,000 successful pro bono ineligible services arsenic a "gift." The disclosure noted that Tirrell specifically signed disconnected connected the acquisition arsenic being successful compliance with applicable morals laws and regulations.

Tirrell's dismissal besides comes amid respective different removals of officials who worked connected Smith's team, arsenic good arsenic astatine slightest 2 much vocation prosecutors who worked connected the probe into the Jan. 6 onslaught connected the U.S. Capitol.

Both investigations person been nether the microscope of erstwhile interim D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin since helium joined the main Justice Department to pb its alleged "Weaponization Working Group."