Marvin Richardson, ATF Deputy Director forced out of office, told to resign or be fired

USA TODAY

covers this story from Wed. April 9, 2025

Marvin Richardson is a 35-yr. veteran of the

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms, Explosives

[a branch of the Dept. of Justice].

Acting ATF Director Kash Patel left that admin.

responsibility when Trump replaced him with

Army Secy. Daniel Driscoll (38-years-old).

Driscoll is traveling out of the country this week.

Before Patel was made director of ATF in February

DOJ Atty. General Pam Bondi fired the bureau's

chief counsel and as since employed in that capacity

Law Professor Robert Leider, former clerk of

Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia.