FILE PHOTO: U.S. Attorney General William Barr arrives prior to U.S. President Donald Trump's statement about his acquittal on impeachment charges by the U.S. Senate in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., February 6, 2020. REUTERS/Leah Millis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney William Barr has tapped the top federal prosecutor in St. Louis to review the Justice Department's politically-charged case against President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn, a department official said on Friday.
Jeffrey Jensen, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, will be working alongside the case's lead prosecutor Brandon Van Grack, a move that comes a month after Flynn told the court he wanted to withdraw his guilty plea in former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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