Michael Gates, the former Huntington Beach city attorney who left to join the Trump administration in February, was fired from the U.S. Department of Justice “for cause,” personnel records obtained through a records request show.

Gates, who spent the last 10 months as a deputy assistant U.S. attorney general in the Civil Rights Division, announced on social media on Sunday, Nov. 9 that he had resigned his position in the Trump administration and was returning home to work for the city once more. He said he was “very conflicted” about leaving because the job was “the honor of a lifetime,” but the months felt like years as he missed his family and their events.

Gates, in a call Friday morning, maintained he resigned.

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