A federal prosecutor demoted for anonymously posting comments on a newspaper’s website has retired. A Justice Department spokesman confirms today that Jan Mann and her husband, fellow prosecutor Jim Mann, both retired from the U.S. attorney’s office in New Orleans. Jan Mann was the top assistant to former U.S. Attorney Jim Letten before he demoted her last month. Letten resigned earlier this month amid a Justice Department probe of comments that she and another prosecutor, Sal Perricone, posted on nola.com, a companion website of The Times-Picayune. Perricone resigned in March after acknowledging he criticized judges and politicians and commented on cases in his online posts under a name that was not his own. Mann didn’t admit to posting the comments until after a defamation suit was filed against her by the owner of a landfill at the center of a federal probe.
Two federal prosecutors retire amid online posts probe
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