Margaret Chiara
On March 23, 2007, the New York Times reported that Margaret Chiara, the former U.S. Attorney for western Michigan, was told by a senior Justice Department official that she was being removed to make way for a new attorney that the Bush administration wanted to groom. “To say it was about politics may not be pleasant, but at least it is truthful,” Chiara said. “Poor performance was not a truthful explanation.” AP reported that during her tenure, "the jurisdiction has seen a 15 percent increase in felony prosecutions and convictions. She developed an attorney training and mentoring program that now serves as a national model, her office said."
Chiara wrote in an email recounting her conversation with Elston that he told her that she had “erroneously assumed that good service guaranteed longevity,” and noted that she and other prosecutors were “being asked for their resignations without good cause.”
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