A 17-year veteran of the Department of Justice is speaking out following her sudden firing on Monday by Attorney General Pam Bondi.Patty Hartman is the fourth person connected to the agency's work on the Jan.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired several Department of Justice (DOJ) employees who worked with former special counsel Jack Smith on two criminal investigations into President Donald Trump 's possession of classified documents and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, Reuters reported on Friday.

She characterized her dismissal as an indication of a broader destabilization inside the Justice Department and Trump administration. In a social media post this week, she wrote, "We appear to be driving straight into an abyss that holds no memory of what democracy is, was, or should be."

Attorney General Pam Bondi fired at least nine Justice Department prosecutors and staffers who worked on criminal cases against President Donald Trump this week, according to multiple reports, the latest terminations of administration staff believed to be against the president—and coming as Bondi herself also comes under fire from the right.

A report states that 20 lawyers, support staff and US marshals who worked on Smith’s investigation were laid off by the Justice Department.

Theresa Schlosser was in federal court the day that Leo Govoni was denied bail. Almost $200,000 was taken from her profoundly disabled daughter’s medical trust fund, leaving her struggling to pay for her medical costs.

Megyn Kelly predicted Bondi would soon be fired and called her “lazy” on Tuesday—while Patel and Bongino have avoided the same furor.

Sources told CBS News that among those fired were paralegals who worked for Special Counsel Jack Smith's office, finance and support staff, and two additional Justice Department prosecutors in North Carolina and Florida.