By Sarah N. Lynch

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A former U.S. Justice Department employee who hurled a sandwich at a federal agent during President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime in Washington pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to a single charge of assaulting, resisting and impeding officers.

Prosecutors from U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office had sought to indict Sean Dunn on a felony assault charge in the case, but a grand jury declined to do so, forcing her office to downgrade the charge to a misdemeanor, a lesser offense that carries a lighter sentence and does not require a grand jury indictment.

Attorney General Pam Bondi fired Dunn, who worked on international affairs in the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, after he was caught on camera throwing a sub sandwich at a U.S. Customs

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