Michael Ben’Ary was chief of the national security section in the Alexandria, Virginia-based office and previously worked at Justice Department headquarters. Spokesmen for the Justice Department and the Eastern District of Virginia didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Ben’Ary didn’t respond to a request for comment on his LinkedIn account. The firing appears to be the latest in a series of purges of Justice Department prosecutors and employees after being targeted by prominent MAGA influencers on social media. In a lawsuit filed last month, three former FBI agents cited social media posts by pro-Trump accounts as influencing their firings at the bureau.