More than 400 former federal prosecutors across Republican and Democratic administrations issued a statement Monday saying President Donald Trump would face an obstruction of justice charge were he not the sitting U.S. president.

Several prominent New York attorneys are among the signatories. Multiple chiefs of the criminal division in the Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney’s Office are listed, including Elkan Abramowitz of Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello and Lorin Reisner of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison. So is Brian Maas of Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, who was the deputy criminal chief in the Eastern District, and Faith Gay of Selendy & Gay, who was deputy chief of special prosecutions in the same office.

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