After federal prosecutors appeared to out the Trump-supporting victims of an alleged Nigerian cryptocurrency scam in a complaint, regional interim U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro blamed court clerks for temporarily sealing the entire court file from the public.
“The court made a ministerial, clerical error that as soon as we realized it, within hours, the whole docket was unsealed,” Pirro told NOTUS in an interview. “They admitted we never asked for the docket to be sealed.” (The court did not respond to questions from NOTUS.)
What prosecutors did ask for, however, according to Pirro, was for the original complaint to be sealed and an amended version be made public instead in order to shield the identity of a “company,” she said in an interview Tuesday.