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Richard Hartunian: "I am very grateful to the Attorney General and the Administration for this opportunity to finish up a 20-year career and I will do everything I can to assist in the orderly transition to my successor." | Getty 2 more U.S. attorneys win reprieves from dismissal order

The chief federal prosecutors in Connecticut and northern New York have won short-term reprieves from President Donald Trump's abrupt action Friday demanding immediate resignations from several dozen U.S. attorneys appointed by President Barack Obama.

U.S. Attorney for Connecticut Deirdre Daly said in a statement Monday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions agreed to allow her to remain in her job until later this year.

"I thank the Attorney General and the Administration for affording me the opportunity to remain as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut so that I might complete 20 years of service to the Department of Justice in October,” Daly said. “I look forward to continuing to work on behalf of the residents of Connecticut in my remaining time, and I will focus on an orderly transition as I complete what has been a rewarding tenure in the Office.”

Daly served as a federal prosecutor in Manhattan and in Connecticut, and in private practice for a time, before being nominated and confirmed as U.S. attorney in 2014.

Albany-based U.S. Attorney Richard Hartunian issued a similar statement. Nominated by Obama in 2009 and confirmed in 2010, Hartunian said he was being allowed to stay through June in order to hit his 20-year mark at the Justice Department.

"The Attorney General has graciously permitted me to remain as United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York through June of 2017 so that I can complete twenty years of service to the Department of Justice,” Hartunian said in his statement.

He added: "I am very grateful to the Attorney General and the Administration for this opportunity to finish up a 20-year career and I will do everything I can to assist in the orderly transition to my successor."

On Friday afternoon, the Trump administration announced that all 46 U.S. Obama-appointed U.S. attorneys were instructed to submit their resignations, effective immediately. A White House official told reporters that all 46 were being dismissed and none would be permitted to stay on.

Some U.S. attorneys said they were told to clear out their offices in a matter of hours Friday and did not have time to complete usual departure tasks before leaving, such as transitioning community outreach efforts to a deputy.

However, the White House announced later Friday that Trump was allowing the U.S. attorney in Alexandria, Va., Dana Boente, and U.S. Attorney for Maryland Rod Rosenstein to remain in their posts. Boente is currently serving as acting deputy attorney general. Trump has nominated Rosenstein to fill that spot on a permanent basis, but the Senate has not yet voted on his nomination.

A White House spokeswoman referred questions about the developments to a Justice Department spokeswoman, who referred a reporter to the Daly and Hartunian statements.

While Daly and Hartunian's statements indicated they were permitted to stay on to fulfill a requirement for federal retirement benefits, other U.S. attorneys were dismissed despite having plans to retire in the coming months.

Another chief federal prosecutor and Justice Department veteran, David Capp of the Northern District of Indiana, said in a statement Saturday that he had planned to retire in June but was leaving his post immediately at Trump's request.

"After 31 years at the United States Attorney’s office I have submitted my resignation as United States Attorney," Capp said. "I had advised my office last summer that it was my plan to retire in 2017. I had been looking toward a June retirement, so this is just a few months earlier."

Most or all of the departing U.S. attorneys are being replaced by their first assistants. Officials have said ongoing prosecutions and investigations will not be disrupted.

Colby Hamilton contributed to this report.

