New Trump Justice Department leaders landing in Washington are inheriting a problem in a key office close to home.
The Maryland US attorney’s office, which forced the resignation of Richard Nixon’s first vice president and groomed top law enforcement officials for decades, has suffered from plummeting productivity and morale under outgoing chief prosecutor Erek Barron and his top aide, with historic lows in new criminal cases brought and judges complaining about office leadership.
Bloomberg Law interviewed 25 current and former DOJ employees and found a host of training and management challenges to turn the unit around at a moment when it’s ...