Trump, Biden Special Counsels to Keep Working Through a Shutdown
- Special counsels have separate appropriation for funding
- Federal courts set to keep operating for at least two weeks
There are three active special counsels appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
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The three federal prosecutors overseeing investigations into former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden and the president’s son Hunter Biden will keep working — and continue to get paid — if the US government shutters in the coming days.
The crypto fraud trial against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is set to begin next week in a Manhattan federal courtroom. The mega antitrust trial against Alphabet Inc.’s Google in Washington is expected to press ahead. And the US Supreme Court justices will take the bench on Oct. 2 to kick off the new term.