At least seven more federal prosecutors in Minnesota have quit or intend to quit after a wave of U.S. attorneys in the state resigned over the Department of Justice’s reluctance to investigate the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot Renee Good, according to recent reports.
Local outlet KARE 11 reported the new resignations Monday, naming Dan Bobier, Allen Slaughter and Ana Voss as some of the prosecutors who parted ways with the DOJ.
It’s unclear what led to the second wave of resignations.
When The Independent reached out to the DOJ for comment, it referred to a February 2025 memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi that read, “It is the job of an attorney privileged to serve in the Department of Justice to zealously defend the interests of the United States.
“Those interests, and the overall policy of the UnitedStates, are set by the Nation's Chief Executive, who is vested by the Constitution with all ‘[E]xecutive Power.’”
The new resignations come weeks after The New York Times reported that six Minnesota federal prosecutors, including Joseph Thompson, resigned over the DOJ’s lack of an investigation into ICE officer Jonathan Ross, who killed Good in Minneapolis in early January, and the department’s demand that Good’s widow, Becca, be probed.
Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and mother of three, was fatally shot by Ross while she was behind the wheel of her car on January 7.
The Trump administration has claimed it was done in self-defense, but Good appeared in a video to be driving away from federal agents who surrounded her car when she was shot.
Becca said that she and Good had stopped to support their neighbors during an ICE operation the day her wife was killed.
“We had whistles,” Becca said, per MPR News. “They had guns.”
Thompson, who was previously appointed by President Donald Trump to serve as Minnesota’s acting U.S. attorney and has more recently served as the first assistant U.S. attorney, reportedly resigned on January 13, along with assistant U.S. attorneys Melinda Williams, Harry Jacobs, and Thomas Calhoun-Lopez.
During his tenure, Thompson oversaw a massive fraud investigation that is intertwined with Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota.
Thompson said last December that half or more of the around $18 billion in federal funds that supported state welfare programs since 2018 may have been stolen.
The Associated Press reported, citing the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Minnesota, the overwhelming majority of defendants in the fraud schemes are Somali Americans, who Trump has called “garbage.”
Bobier, one of the prosecutors who most recently reportedly resigned, was expected to assume Thompson’s responsibility of prosecuting fraud in Minnesota.
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