A federal judge is turning to a former Trump-selected federal prosecutor to investigate whether his current administration’s lawyers misled the court in order to renovate a historic public golf course.
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes issued an order on Nov. 7 saying that the court intends to appoint Jessie Liu to investigate whether the Interior Department and National Park Service officials, along with Justice Department attorneys, violated ethics rules or misled the court when they said no final plan existed for the golf course project in October despite President Donald Trump sharing a rendering of the project days later.
Liu was a former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia from 2017 to 2020, during Trump’s first term, and held senior positions at the Justice Department. …