The statement from Inspector General Michael Horowitz comes after The New York Times reported that Jeffrey Clarke, the department's acting assistant attorney general for the civil division, had plotted with then President Donald Trump in a failed attempt to oust the acting attorney general at the time so that a probe of alleged voter fraud in Georgia could be launched.

The Times reported that Clark was sympathetic to Trump's so called stop the Steal campaign and that he met with Republican Congressman Scott Perry of Pennsylvania to discuss a plan to have the Justice Department sent Georgia a letter disclosing the department would investigate the election results.

But the plot was ultimately foiled after other senior leaders in the department threatened to resign if Clark was appointed acting attorney general.

On December 1st, former Attorney General Bill Barr said the Justice Department had found no evidence of widespread voter fraud, even as Trump and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, sought to push the DOJ toe look into their false claim that the election had been stolen.

Bar later submitted his resignation, stepping down just before Christmas.