The U.S. Department of Justice has reached a temporary staffing compromise that will return about 40 white-collar prosecutors, including those focused on insider trading, to the Criminal Division’s fraud section, reversing an April transfer to the Trump administration’s new fraud division, Bloomberg Law reported. 

An organizational memo circulating internally on Thursday states that the market integrity and consumer fraud teams will return to their original fraud section, sources told Bloomberg Law. The arrangement will be re-evaluated in six months, at which point the prosecutors could once again be absorbed by the National Fraud Enforcement Division, whose mandate is enforcing government program fraud, according to the outlet.

The April transfer had triggered weeks of conflict between Criminal Division chief Tysen Duva and Colin McDonald, who heads the White House-launched National Fraud Enforcement Division, according to Bloomberg Law. The compromise marks a short-term win for Duva, with fraud section veterans having feared he would lose the personnel battle to an anti-fraud project prioritized by Vice President JD Vance and Trump adviser Stephen Miller, the outlet reported.

The plan also calls for McDonald’s division to take control of the Criminal Division fraud section’s litigation support, administrative, and legal ethics units, with a few exceptions. The fraud section’s healthcare unit and a team of 10 procurement fraud attorneys will remain in the National Fraud Enforcement Division, as their mission aligns more closely with McDonald’s focus on wrongdoing targeting taxpayer-funded programs, according to the report.

McDonald had previously sought to keep the market and consumer fraud teams within his division at an earlier stage of negotiations, Bloomberg Law reported. Former DOJ attorneys had raised widespread concerns that the fraud section’s record on securities and commodities fraud cases could be de-emphasized in favor of a partisan agenda to investigate Democratic-led jurisdictions.