DuCharme resigns as acting U.S. attorney for Eastern District
His career has alternated between D.C. and Brooklyn since ’08
Seth D. DuCharme, acting U.S. attorney for the Brooklyn-based Eastern District of New York, announced on Monday that he is resigning his post effective March 19.
DuCharme, the chief federal law enforcement officer for the district comprising Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Nassau and Suffolk counties, had been on the job for less than eight months. He was appointed July 10, 2020 by former U.S. Attorney General William Barr.
Reports published last month said that the Biden administration was expected to ask all Trump-era U.S. attorneys to resign. The changeover of U.S. attorneys is routine with a new administration — for example, in 2017 former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked 46 Obama-appointed U.S. attorneys to submit their registrations.