Trump is appointing his former lawyer Lindsey Halligan to be US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia. Before this, she practiced insurance law in Florida, became part of his legal team and had her first federal case in 2022 when Mar-a-Lago was searched. She has no ties to the Eastern District of Virginia and is not a member of the Virginia Bar. She has never handled a prosecution. She replaces Erik Siebert, former police officer and experienced prosecutor and US attorney who found no grounds for prosecuting NY attorney general, Letitia James, nor for former FBI director James Comey.