Multiple senior officials in the Justice Department under the first Trump administration improperly leaked non-public details of inquiries into Covid-19 deaths at nursing homes in Democratic-led states,

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three senior U.S. Justice Department officials committed misconduct in the final months of Donald Trump’s first presidency by leaking details about a non-public investigation, a move that may have been intended to sway the 2020 election, the department's internal watchdog concluded in a new report.

An inspector general’s report shows a Justice Department official called the inquiries, which were embarrassing to N.Y. and N.J. governors, “our last play on them before election.”