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mysteryowl

(8,123 posts)
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 01:51 PM 4 hrs ago

Joe Thompson, U.S. Attorney who prosecuted Minnesota fraud, resigns with other senior members

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Source: Minnesota Star Tribune

Thompson’s 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.

Thompson’s 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 Department’s Civil Rights Division. That office recently learned there would not be a civil rights investigation into Good’s 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.
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Joe Thompson, U.S. Attorney who prosecuted Minnesota fraud, resigns with other senior members (Original Post) mysteryowl 4 hrs ago OP
Don't let the door hit ya UpInArms 4 hrs ago #1
When he talked it always looked like he was smiling no matter what he was saying. mysteryowl 4 hrs ago #2
Maybe he resigned because he was told not to cooperate with the BCA. Ocelot II 4 hrs ago #3
AFTER a review by forum hosts LOCKING Omaha Steve 2 hrs ago #4

UpInArms

(54,121 posts)
1. Don't let the door hit ya
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 01:53 PM
4 hrs ago

mysteryowl

(8,123 posts)
2. When he talked it always looked like he was smiling no matter what he was saying.
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 01:55 PM
4 hrs ago

Ocelot II

(129,218 posts)
3. Maybe he resigned because he was told not to cooperate with the BCA.
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 02:03 PM
4 hrs ago

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)
4. AFTER a review by forum hosts LOCKING
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 03:27 PM
2 hrs ago

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