In addition to generating over 7,200 sheets of drawings for the collection to date, the competition presents awards totaling $19,000 to the winning student teams. It is intended to heighten awareness about historic buildings in the United States and to augment the HABS/HAER/HALS Collection of measured drawings at the Library of Congress. Peterson, FAIA (1906-2004), a founder of the HABS program. The annual competition, currently in its 40th year, honors Charles E. Peterson Prize is presented jointly by the Heritage Documentation Programs (Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record / Historic American Landscapes Survey) of the National Park Service, the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, the American Institute of Architects, and the Association for Preservation Technology. After nearly a year of the investigation, Berman writes that he told the Justice Department his office would not prosecute Kerry and that a senior adviser to Barr told him they would take the case to another US attorney’s office, which also reached the same conclusion.ĬNN’s Kara Scannell contributed to this report.A student competition of measured drawings, the Charles E. Kerry, who has denied the allegations, was not told about the investigation, according to Berman. Strauss and other prosecutors prepared memos that eventually agreed with Barr’s critique but the guilty plea wasn’t affected, which satisfied Barr.īerman also writes that the Justice Department wanted to pursue an investigation into former Secretary of State John Kerry, who Trump accused in 2019 of violating the Logan Act by taking part in negotiations with Iran’s government. CNN also reached out to Ed O’Callaghan, then-acting principal associate deputy attorney general, for comment on Thursday.īarr reviewed the Cohen prosecution and raised concern that prosecutors had used the wrong provision in the law, according to a person familiar with the episode. Khuzami oversaw Cohen’s case because Berman was recused in that matter after it was referred to the office by special counsel Robert Mueller.īarr declined to comment to CNN on Berman’s allegations in his book. Audrey Strauss, who succeeded Khuzami, convinced Barr there was no basis to dismiss charges against Cohen, Berman also writes.
Barr, after he became attorney general in 2019, also tried to kill the district’s investigations into others in Trump’s circle regarding possible campaign finance violations, the newspaper also writes citing Berman’s book.īerman writes that his office was ordered to pause investigative steps, and that, “not a single document in our possession could be reviewed,” according to the Times.
Berman also writes how former Attorney General Bill Barr attempted to have Cohen’s 2018 conviction reversed.īarr sought to oust Berman in 2020, prompting a tense standoff with Berman who refused to resign until Trump fired him.īefore Cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal counts, including campaign finance violations, Berman writes that as his office was making a charging document listing the crimes, a Justice Department official unsuccessfully pressured then-Deputy US Attorney Robert Khuzami for the Southern District of New York to remove references to “Individual-1,” who was identified as Trump, according to the newspaper. In the book, the former US attorney for the Southern District of New York details efforts by the Trump administration’s Justice Department to have words that hinted at Trump in charging documents for Michael Cohen removed, the Times reported. “Holding the Line,” which is set to be released Tuesday, and includes the accounts from Berman comes amid a legal battle between Trump and the current Justice Department after it seized classified documents from his Mar-a-Lago residence in August. attorney,” Berman writes in his forthcoming book according to the Times which obtained a copy of it, “Trump’s Justice Department kept demanding that I use my office to aid them politically, and I kept declining – in ways just tactful enough to keep me from being fired.” Former US Attorney Geoffrey Berman, a Donald Trump appointee who was later fired by the former President, says top Trump-era officials in the Justice Department pressured his office to “aid them politically,” The New York Times reported Thursday.
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