WASHINGTON — Jason Reding Quiñones, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, has resigned. He announced his resignation writing a post on X on Friday.
He wrote – “I submitted my resignation to the President as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, effective today.” No reason was given in the post.
Attorney General Todd Blanche accepted the resignation. He wrote on X – “Today I accepted the resignation of Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division John Eisenberg from the Department of Justice. He has served with distinction, strengthening our nation’s ability to address threats, both foreign and domestic.”
“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. “Jason has served the Department multiple times over his distinguished career, and we thank him for his service to this country.”
Dhillon went first. Harmeet Dhillon, who ran the Civil Rights Division, stepped down on Thursday. Reuters counted Quiñones as the second senior Justice Department official to leave since Republicans lost the midterms on Tuesday, when Democrats won control of Congress.
Quiñones ran the office that oversaw the “grand conspiracy” investigation. That inquiry, begun in August 2025, looked at claims that Obama administration officials pushed a story of collusion between Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia, the New York Post reported. Subpoenas went to former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former FBI Director James Comey.
The probe has not produced indictments, Bloomberg Law reported. It had already lost its leader once. Joe diGenova, who had been brought in to run the investigation, resigned on Sept. 10.
“If you want indictments where there’s no evidence, you have an ethical problem,” diGenova told the Post at the time, in a phone interview.
A former line prosecutor in the same Florida office, Quiñones was the first Trump-appointed U.S. attorney confirmed by the Senate, in mid-2025, Bloomberg Law reported. Reuters described the Southern District of Florida as an office long counted among the department’s strongest.
Blanche did not say in the post who will run the office now, or what happens to the conspiracy investigation.
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