On October 7, 2021, Senate Judiciary Ranking Member Chuck Grassley released a minority staff report, “In their own words,” summarizing testimony about December 2020–January 2021 at the Department. Section VI is titled, in the report’s own words, that Public Integrity and the Election Crimes Branch were “historically passive” and that “one of its leaders, Richard Pilger, undermined the Department’s election-related efforts.”
The report says Pilger’s resignation after the November 9, 2020, Barr memo “frustrated the DOJ’s ability to do its job.” It quotes then-acting PADAG Richard Donoghue that the resignation “raised concerns because it left the perception that the Department was somehow doing something improper” when Barr wanted the Department able to assess whether fraud had affected the election. Those are staff-report characterizations and a witness’s testimony. They are not a judicial finding that Pilger committed a crime.
Just the News covered the GOP report the same week. Wikipedia-level claims that Pilger resumed the directorship in February 2021 are not in this PDF as a personnel order. This site does not treat a later encyclopedia line as a DOJ press release.