Overview
- Multiple veteran attorneys resigned from the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office, with MPR News reporting the departures followed pressure from Justice Department leaders to investigate Becca Good for ties to activist groups.
- Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said there is currently no basis for a criminal civil-rights investigation into the ICE agent’s killing of Renee Macklin Good.
- The departing group includes Joe Thompson, Tom Calhoun-Lopez, and Melinda Williams, whose collective experience underpinned major cases in the district, according to MPR News.
- Thompson’s exit clouds next steps in the Feeding Our Future fraud case, which has produced 58 convictions and has about 20 defendants awaiting trial, as the already shorthanded office faces staffing strain.
- Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed she fired six prosecutors over their stance on supporting law enforcement, a statement contrasted by a DOJ spokesperson’s assertion to The Guardian—reported by The Mirror US—that some resignations stemmed from earlier retirement requests, while senior administration figures publicly emphasized legal protections for ICE agents.