By Sarah N. Lynch

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department is closing a task force that took on drug cartels and an office that aimed to ease racial tensions, in a reorganization that drops a plan to merge the nation’s top drug and gun law enforcement agencies, documents seen by Reuters show.

The most sweeping reorganization of the DOJ in two decades, which Attorney General Pam Bondi approved in September, will cut about 275 positions, leading to the elimination of or involuntary re-assignment of about 140 employees, the documents show.

“Reduction in force” letters to employees whose roles will be affected in the units that are to be closed were due to be sent out earlier this week, other government documents seen by Reuters showed.

The DOJ said the changes are designed to “pr

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