(CNN) President Donald Trump on Tuesday abruptly withdrew the nomination for Jessie Liu, the former US attorney who headed the office that oversaw Roger Stone's prosecution, to serve in a top Treasury Department position, three sources told CNN.

Liu's nomination was pulled the same day that the four federal prosecutors who had successfully taken Stone's case to trial withdrew their involvement after top Justice Department officials intervened by reducing the government's recommended sentence against Stone.

Liu was nominated in December to serve as the Treasury Department's under secretary for terrorism and financial crimes. Previously she headed the US attorney's office that oversaw the prosecution and conviction of Trump's longtime political adviser until Attorney General William Barr replaced her last month. She also led the team that worked on the sentencing of former Trump deputy campaign manager Rick Gates.

Her office inherited many of the major ongoing cases from Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation and was also handling the politically charged case of former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe -- a frequent target of Trump's ire. (McCabe is a CNN contributor.) That office is now run by Tim Shea, a close adviser to Barr.

One source Tuesday did not dismiss the idea that the nomination withdrawal was connected to developments in Stone's case. Liu's confirmation hearing had been slated for Thursday in front of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.

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