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Pulte’s focus on the New York attorney general has only intensified in recent months.

McCluskie — a former chief deputy attorney general of California when Becerra was attorney general — pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud and is cooperating with authorities, court filings show.

Republicans in Congress and the conservative attorney general of Texas External link, Ken Paxton, are separately investigating what they call the firms’ “radical agenda.”

His new arrest stems from a bombshell about-face last year by the office of Mexico’s attorney general, which abruptly retreated from the lone-gunman allegation.

The Justice Department says Halligan’s appointment is valid because the law affords the attorney general the authority to make a new interim pick any time a vacancy arises.