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ABC News(NEW YORK) Geoffrey Berman, who served two-and-a-half years as United States attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2018 to 2020, said the Justice Department pressured him and his office to pursue criminal cases against perceived enemies of former President Donald Trump, including former Secretary of State John Kerry. "I had never seen anything like that before," Berman told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos in his first interview about his new book, Holding the Line: Inside the Nation's Preeminent US Attorney's Office and its Battle with the Trump Justice Department. "People who had been in the office for 40 years never saw anything like that. It was unprecedented and scary." Berman described a tenure under Attorney Generals Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr and acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker rife with politics and constant interference, pressuring him to remove references to Individual-1, aka Donald Trump, in the case agains

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