杰森·雷丁·奎诺恩斯,南佛罗里达的美国检察官,负责领导一场大规模的有争议的阴谋调查司法部长托德·布兰奇(Todd Blanche)周五宣布,针对唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)总统的敌人,他已从司法部辞职。
布兰奇还宣布,监督司法部国家安全部门的最高官员约翰·艾森伯格已经从司法部辞职。
继特朗普盟友周四辞职后,雷丁·基诺内斯和艾森伯格是民主党历史性中期选举胜利后第二和第三位离开特朗普政府的DOJ高级官员哈米特·迪隆司法部民权司的。
雷丁·基诺内斯也是特朗普的几位盟友律师中最新一位离开所谓的“大阴谋“DOJ发起的调查,旨在调查情报官员和其他政府行为者是否有组织地进行犯罪活动,侵犯特朗普总统自2016年竞选以来的公民权利。
尽管探测器已经捕获了许多特朗普总统的目标在围绕传票和大陪审团证词的幕后法律纠纷中,迄今为止尚未导致任何刑事起诉,消息人士称,这是特朗普总统和其他DOJ高级官员感到沮丧的一个原因。
据消息人士称,雷丁·奎诺恩斯的离职在最近几周被视为已成定局,此前DOJ领导层在私下会议上警告他,称他在大阴谋调查中缺乏进展,并频繁前往华盛顿特区
“我们感谢杰森在打击暴力犯罪、贩毒、性交易和跨国犯罪方面的领导作用,”布兰奇在宣布雷丁·基诺内斯离职的社交媒体帖子中说。
艾森伯格此前是导致特朗普总统下台的乌克兰丑闻的核心人物之一控告在他的第一个任期内。他的办公室看到了人员的重大重新分配,从涉及恐怖主义、间谍活动和外国干涉的案件和调查转向特朗普政府的移民执法优先事项。
国家安全司还参与领导对前国家安全顾问的机密文件起诉约翰·博尔顿博尔顿今年早些时候承认有罪,以及一些导致数名记者被传唤的泄密调查。
US attorney tasked with leading 'grand conspiracy' probe into Trump's foes resigns from DOJ
Jason Reding Quinones, the South Florida-based U.S. attorney tasked with leading a sweeping and controversialconspiracy probetargeting President Donald Trump's foes, has resigned from the Justice Department, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Friday.
Blanche also announced that John Eisenberg, the top official overseeing the Justice Department's National Security Division, had resigned from the department.
Reding Quinones and Eisenberg are the second and third high-level DOJ official to depart the Trump administration following Democrats' historic midterm wins, following Thursday's resignation by Trump allyHarmeet Dhillonfrom the department's Civil Rights Division.
Reding Quiñones is also the latest among several Trump-allied attorneys to step away from the so-called "grand conspiracy" probe launched by the DOJ to examine whether intelligence officials and other government actors organized in a criminal effort to violate President Trump's civil rights dating back to his 2016 campaign.
While the probe has ensnared numeroustargets of President Trumpin behind-the-scenes legal wrangling over subpoenas and grand jury testimony, it has thus far led to no criminal indictments in what sources have said is a source of frustration for President Trump and other top DOJ officials.
Reding Quinones' departure was seen as a foregone conclusion in recent weeks, according to sources, after DOJ leadership admonished him in private meetings for his lack of progress in the grand conspiracy investigation and his frequent trips to Washington, D.C.
"We are grateful for Jason's leadership in combatting violent crime, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and transnational crime," Blanche said in a social media post announcing Reding Quinones' departure.
Eisenberg was previously one of the central figures in the Ukraine scandal that led to President Trump'simpeachmentduring his first term in office. His office saw a significant reassigning of personnel directed away from cases and probes involving terrorism, espionage and foreign interference, and toward the Trump administration's immigration enforcement priorities.
The National Security Division was also involved in leading the classified documents prosecution of former national security adviserJohn Boltonfor which Bolton pleaded guilty earlier this year -- as well as some of leak investigations that led to the subpoena of several journalists.





