barr leans on geoffrey berman in sdny and berman says no. as he argued, "the suggestion that the justice department would offer turkish officials protection from criminal charges, even without their agreement to assist in the investigation is unacceptable and unethical. justice department policy specifically says criminal conduct by individuals doesn't get resolved when a company admits wrongdoing. berman told barr, "this is not how we do things in the southern district," adding that he would not agree to such a move and that his office would not be part of it. as the "times" reports, the administration's bitterness over geoffrey berman's unwillingness to go along with the proposal would linger and ultimately contribute to his dismissal as u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york. that turkish bank, it was eventually charged by sdny prosecutors after they were given permission to do so by bill barr, not because of any change in evidence or circumstances surrounding the case, nothing that should be within the four corners of a prose

geoffrey berman is the u.s. attorney there.ould note that the criminal violation here is funneling money illegally to iran to evade sanctions, so from an ideological standpoint, the president who prizes lims s hi getting tough on iran, like, this should be a policy prior y priority, presumably, of this president given his stated foreign policy aims. evaa that is ongoing. what you say is with tentacles reaching into the trump administration, including rudy giuliani working on this, rex tillerson and john bolton, knowing there's, like, weird amounts of pro-turkey pressure pinging around the white house all the time that trump administration officials are putting pressure on berman to not do what should be done which is prosecute this bank criminally. >> particularly the thing berman was pressured on, not whether or not the charges would go ahead against the bank, specifically, but whether or not they would continue criminal investigations into individuals. >> ah. >> so there's two different types of things. there's a case against

you have a prosecution that's emanating out of the southern district of new york, geoffrey berman is. attorney there. we should note that the criminal violation here is funneling money illegally to iran to evade sanctions. so from an ideological standpoint, the president who prides himself getting tough on iran, this should be a policy priority, presumably of this president given his stated foreign policy aims. that criminal prosecution has tentacles, rudy giuliani and recollec recollectirex tillerson noting they're hanging around the white house you'll the time, they are put being pressure on berman to not do what he thinks should be done, that is prosecute this criminally. >> in particular the thing berman was pressured on was not whether charges would go against the bank specifically, but whether they would continue criminal investigations into individuals. so there are two different types of things. there is a case against the bank which justice was still largely prepared to go ahead if necessary. but the question was whether or not they were going to investigate these former min