Ex-U.S. Attorney’s Relationship Was Misconduct, Watchdog Finds

A former top federal prosecutor committed misconduct by having an “intimate relationship” with a subordinate, the Justice Department’s internal watchdog said Tuesday.

An investigation by the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General concluded that the U.S. attorney, who resigned amid the probe, violated an instruction provided to chief federal prosecutors that relationships with subordinates “would not be tolerated,” the OIG said in a brief report.

The department’s independent watchdog, which didn’t name the former prosecutor in its report, referred its findings to the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, the deputy attorney general’s office, and the DOJ Office of Professional ...