Prosecutor who led DOJ’s ‘grand conspiracy’ investigation into Trump’s foes resigns

Jason Reding Quiñones, the U.S. attorney in Florida who led a faltering “grand conspiracy” investigation into former federal officials who were part of President Donald Trump’s prosecution, has resigned, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Friday.

“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 wrote.

Reding Quiñones is one of at least three high-level officials to leave the Justice Department this week after the GOP’s drubbing in the midterm elections. The DOJ’s civil rights division chief, Harmeet Dhillon, departed Thursday. And Blanche followed his post about Reding Quiñones with another saying John Eisenberg, the assistant attorney general for the national security division, had also stepped down.

Reding Quiñones was a key figure in the DOJ’s probe into whether former intelligence and law enforcement officials who investigated Russian interference in the 2016 election and who were involved in the 2022 FBI search of Mar-a-Lago conspired to violate Trump’s civil rights.

The probe was widely viewed as part of a retribution campaign against the president’s perceived enemies. Prosecutors subpoenaed documents from Trump’s frequent targets, including former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and former FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.

But prosecutors on the case have been leaving, and Reding Quiñones’ departure may signal that the probe is unraveling.

Veteran prosecutor Maria Medetis Long, who reportedly questioned the strength of a false statements case against Brennan, was removed from the case in April. Joseph diGenova, who was brought in to lead the investigation, resigned Sept. 10 after a dispute over its pace. Prosecutor Kurt Olsen, a 2020 election denier, left the team later that month.

Reding Quiñones had also put together a team to pursue criminal charges against Cuba’s top leaders, MS NOW reported earlier this year, in service of Trump’s stated goal of forcing regime change in the communist country. Raúl Castro, the former president of Cuba who succeeded his brother Fidel Castro, was indicted on murder charges in May in the 1996 downing of two small planes by a Cuban fighter jet.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

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