Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday tapped former acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson to lead the U.S. attorneys within the Justice Department after the Biden administration asked Trump-appointed federal prosecutors to resign.

Jay Clayton said he had named James McDonald as a deputy to oversee the transition at the Southern District of New York office. President Trump nominated Mr. Clayton to be his intelligence chief.

Sullivan & Cromwell partner James “Jamie” McDonald is returning to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York as a deputy U.S. attorney while current U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton prepares for a confirmation hearing on his nomination to serve as director of national intelligence.

Shortly after Douglas DePodesta became head of the FBI’s storied Chicago bureau, he told the Tribune he would love to call it a career in his adopted hometown when he hit the mandatory