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

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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

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