CHICAGO — After five years as Chicago’s top federal prosecutor, John Lausch probably didn’t envision the news of his departure would come out like it did.
A crush of national media had assembled in Washington on Thursday for an update from U.S. Attorney Merrick Garland on Lausch’s review of classified documents found in a private office used by President Joe Biden.
As Lausch stood silently on the stage next to his boss, Garland announced that Lausch and his team had determined that a special counsel was warranted for a more in depth investigation into the Biden documents, but it was already known that Lausch could not take on that role.
