{"id":68300,"date":"2026-03-06T12:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/florida-bar-launches-ethics-investigation-into-trump-appointed-us-attorney\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T12:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:02:12","slug":"florida-bar-launches-ethics-investigation-into-trump-appointed-us-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/florida-bar-launches-ethics-investigation-into-trump-appointed-us-attorney\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida bar launches ethics investigation into Trump-appointed US attorney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsey Halligan, who temporarily served as a top federal prosecutor in Virginia, could be stripped of license<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A former interim US attorney who was appointed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> and led failed prosecutions against two of the president\u2019s political opponents is facing an ethics investigation by the bar association in her home state of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/florida\">Florida<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>News of the investigation against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/20\/lindsey-halligan-us-attorney-leaves-office\">Lindsey Halligan<\/a> \u2013 who temporarily served as the top federal prosecutor in the eastern district of Virginia \u2013 was contained in a February letter from the Florida bar to Campaign for Accountability executive director Michelle Kuppersmith.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/06\/lindsey-halligan-ethics-investigation-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsey Halligan, who temporarily served as a top federal prosecutor in Virginia, could be stripped of license Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email A former interim US attorney who was appointed by Donald Trump and led failed prosecutions against two of the president\u2019s political opponents is facing an ethics investigation by the &#8230; <a title=\"Florida bar launches ethics investigation into Trump-appointed US attorney\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/florida-bar-launches-ethics-investigation-into-trump-appointed-us-attorney\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Florida bar launches ethics investigation into Trump-appointed US attorney\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}