David Freed, the Pennsylvania U.S. Attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, announced Tuesday (Dec. 29) that he will resign on Jan. 1, 2021.
The federal prosecutor, who was appointed by President Trump in 2017, made headlines in September for announcing an investigation into “throwaway” ballots.
In a statement Tuesday, Fried said, “I have been very fortunate to work with a highly qualified attorney and staff in the Middle District of Pennsylvania for the past three years. It is an office with experienced and dedicated leadership and colleagues who truly understand the importance of working together for the benefit of our fellow citizens.”
Fried did not give a reason for his resignation, but said, “I have done my best to be thoughtful and consistent and to provide justice to my fellow citizens in a fair, effective and efficient manner.”
Outsiders were surprised by the Justice Department’s inaction in the U.S. election fraud, and former Attorney General William Barr has just left office. Barr insisted that there was no evidence of fraud to change the outcome of the election.
Fried’s resignation is more mysterious signal on the matter. In September, Fried announced an investigation into nine Pennsylvania military ballots that were improperly opened and “discarded”.
At the time, Fried took the highly unusual step of announcing that his office was investigating the discard of mail-in ballots in Luzerne County, which involved the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and that seven of those ballots were cast for President Trump.
The Justice Department’s press release on the investigation was seen as unusual, and Freed subsequently received criticism from industry insiders that he should not have released ballot details to outsiders.
Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar later argued that the incident was a “serious error” and said it was not “intentional fraud.
The Fried investigation is just the tip of the iceberg involving alleged or suspected voter fraud in the Nov. 3 presidential election.
In a press release issued Monday (28), Pennsylvania Republican state lawmakers said the number of votes counted in the state’s 2020 election did not match the number of voters who cast ballots, and that the number of votes counted was actually 170,000 more than the number of voters who cast ballots, more than twice the number of votes for Biden ahead of Trump.
The statement said the state’s certification of the presidential election results was “absolutely premature, unverified, and false.
In response, a spokesman for Secretary of State Polkvar told the Washington Examiner in a statement that Republican lawmakers’ “analysis was based on incomplete data” and that state and federal judges “have sifted through hundreds of pages of unsubstantiated and false allegations and found no evidence of fraud or illegal voting.
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