DOJ official resigns amid questions about "grand conspiracy" probe
Summary
Jason Reding Quiñones resigned as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida while overseeing a Justice Department investigation into alleged efforts by Obama- and Biden-era intelligence officials to keep Donald Trump from office. His departure follows other exits and internal disagreements over the probe, which has not produced charges proving an overarching conspiracy.Key Facts
- Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Quiñones' resignation on Friday but did not give a reason.
- The Fort Pierce investigation examines alleged coordination by former intelligence officials and separately whether former CIA Director John Brennan lied to Congress about the agency's role in a 2016 Russia intelligence assessment.
- Former prosecutor Joe diGenova and former White House attorney Kurt Olsen also left the investigation.
- The Justice Department sent attorneys from Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter's office to Florida to help manage the case, a move that Quiñones and diGenova resisted, according to sources cited by CBS News.
- A career prosecutor who had led the investigation in Quiñones' office was sidelined after raising concerns about the strength of the evidence, CBS News previously reported.
- The investigation has involved extensive grand jury activity but has not resulted in charges establishing the alleged overarching conspiracy.
- Quiñones also oversaw cases involving former Cuban leader Raúl Castro and a new criminal investigation targeting former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
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