The U.S. attorney who led the Justice Department’s “grand conspiracy” probe into those who conducted various investigations of Trump is stepping down, Attorney General Todd Blanche said on a post on X this morning.
Jason Reding Quiñones, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, is resigning just days after the midterm elections swept Democrats back into power on Capitol Hill, with party leaders promising a vigorous investigative agenda as they prepare to take over Congress.
“We are grateful for Jason’s leadership in combatting violent crime, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and transnational crime, including the indictment of Raúl Castro,” Blanche said in his post.
Quiñones’ resignation follows that of Joe diGenova, who worked under him. DiGenova resigned in September amid clashes with DOJ leadership over the speed of the investigation, NBC News previously reported.
“Everybody was in their lane, and then some lanes got crossed, and then I decided to leave,” diGenova told NBC News. “I want to underscore that we were following the principles of federal prosecution all along the way, and we did that. We were moving smartly, and I underscore we were moving smartly, and then things, you know, got where they got.”
The investigation focused initially on the 2016 Russia investigation and then on the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago, which led to the federal indictment of Trump by special counsel Jack Smith’s office in the classified documents case.
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