Don Lemon hires federal prosecutor who resigned over Minnesota probes
- A former federal prosecutor, Joe Thompson, is now representing Don Lemon, who is indicted for disrupting a church service in Minnesota where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official was a pastor.
- Lemon intends to plead not guilty to federal civil rights charges related to the church protest, stating he was an independent journalist during the incident.
- Thompson and Harry Jacobs launched a new law firm after their resignations from the federal prosecutor's office.
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