The dismissals were the first time that prosecutors who worked on Jan. 6 cases and were past their probationary period of federal employment had been fired by the Justice Department., The U.S. Department of Justice has reportedly fired at least three prosecutors connected to criminal cases stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the nation's Capitol. Both the Associated Press , Pam Bondi fires three DOJ prosecutors who were involved in prosecuting January 6 rioters, report says Firings come after administration pardoned over 1,500 convicted in pro-Trump January 6 riot at , Unlike the more than 12 Jan. 6 prosecutors fired in January, the three targeted Friday weren’t recently-hired as temporary employees, which the then-US attorney for DC used to provide legal justification for the earlier removals., Justice Department leadership has directed Washington, D.C.'s top prosecutor, Acting U.S. Attorney Edward Martin, to fire prosecutors who were assigned to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol, The Justice Department abruptly fired dozens of prosecutors who worked on criminal cases stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according to correspondence reviewed by.