Joe Thompson, U.S. Attorney who prosecuted Minnesota fraud, resigns with other senior members
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Source: Minnesota Star Tribune
Thompsons resignation was followed by several others, including two top ranking criminal prosecutors in the office. Thompson has been at the center of the national debate on fraud in Minnesota and has claimed that billions of dollars have been stolen from taxpayers.
It has been an honor and a privilege to represent the United States and this office, Thompson wrote in an email obtained by the Minnesota Star Tribune. He did not give any reason for his resignation or indication of where he is going next.
He did not respond to initial requests for comment.
Thompsons resignation was followed by other senior members of the office, including Assistant U.S. Attorney Harry Jacobs, chief of the criminal division and second in command on fraud cases and Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Calhoun-Lopez.
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The resignations in Minnesota come on the same day that multiple media outlets reported a wave of resignations by career prosecutors inside the Justice Departments Civil Rights Division. That office recently learned there would not be a civil rights investigation into Goods killing.
Read more: https://www.startribune.com/joe-thompson-us-attorney-who-uncovered-massive-fraud-in-minnesota-resigns-from-office/601563206
The murder is indefensible.
UpInArms
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mysteryowl
(8,123 posts)Ocelot II
(129,218 posts)Thompson was also the acting AG in charge of the Boelter prosecution (the guy who murdered Melissa Hortman), and Harry Jacobs was one of the actual prosecutors. Thompson had been with the US attorney's office for years; he's not known to be a Trump sycophant, and that's probably why he's gone.
Omaha Steve
(108,463 posts)DUPE of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143598007
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