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A week ago, Geoffrey S. Berman, US attorney for the Southern District of New York was forced to step down by Attorney General Bill Barr after he had been investgating Trump cronies a bit too seriously for comfort for president Donald.
Berman has prosecuted or brought charges against: 1) Donald’t paedo buddy Jeffrey Epstein; 2) Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen; 3) Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, who was at the infamous 9 June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower; 4) Rudy Giuliani associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman.
Berman also investigated Giuliani himself.

There are a lot more interesting investigations started by (the office of) Geoffrey Berman that could be more than enough reason for the “deep state” to fire him!
Maybe the most troubling was that he investigated the largest Turkish state-owned bank, Halkbank and Israel's largest bank Bank Hapoalim. Both are close to the Trump-Kushner crime syndicate.

On 30 April 2020, Geoffrey Berman announced a deferred prosecution agreement against Bank Hapoalim, for helping to hide assets in offshore accounts and helping to bribe FIFA officials (the body that controls international soccer).
Bank Hapoalim settled the 2 cases for more than $900 million. Berman commented:

Israel's largest bank, Bank Hapoalim, and its Swiss subsidiary have admitted not only failing to prevent but actively assisting U.S. customers to set up secret accounts, to shelter assets and income, and to evade taxes. The combined payment approaching $1 billion reflects the magnitude of the tax evasion by the Bank's U.S. customers, the size of the fees the Bank collected to provide this illegal service, and the gravity of the illegal conduct.

In the first case, Bank Hapoalim helped launder millions in bribes and kickbacks paid to officials in FIFA. Between 2010 and 2015, Hapoalim’s Miami branch laundered illicit payments to FIFA officials, including former head of Colombian football and a member of FIFA’s executive committee Luis Bedoya. In 2015, Bedoya was banned from international soccer and was (is?) awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty pleading guilty to racketeering and wire fraud.
Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowsk commented:

For nearly five years, Bank Hapoalim employees used the U.S. financial system to launder tens of millions of dollars in bribe payments to corrupt soccer officials in multiple countries.

In the second case, Bank Hapoalim pleaded guilty to aiding U.S. customers in setting up accounts under false names to evade taxes on more than $7.6 billion in deposits.
For this second case alone, Bank Hapoalim agreed to pay $874 million in penalties, tax arrears and forfeited assets: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?547371-US-attorney-Berman-fired-after-investigating-Trump-cronies

Kushner Companies also received at least 4 “loans” from Bank Hapoalim, Israel’s largest bank, which is under investigation of the US Department of Justice for helping US citizens evade taxes through undeclared accounts through its Swiss division.