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Miami's top federal prosecutor Jason Reding Quiñones resigns a day after Dhillon
Jason Reding Quiñones, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida whose office oversaw the so-called "grand conspiracy" investigation into Trump's adversaries, resigned Friday. His exit is the second high-profile Justice Department departure since Republicans lost both chambers of Congress.
Jason Reding Quiñones, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, resigned from the Justice Department on Friday, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced. His departure came one day after Harmeet Dhillon stepped down as head of the department's Civil Rights Division, the first major resignation after Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress in Tuesday's midterm elections.
"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 on X. "Jason has served the Department multiple times over his distinguished career, and we thank him for his service to this country." Neither Blanche nor Quiñones gave a reason for the resignation.
In his own post, Quiñones said he had submitted his resignation to President Donald Trump effective immediately. "From serving our Nation in uniform to serving at the Department of Justice and on the bench, public service has been the honor of my lifetime," he wrote, thanking Trump "for his trust."
The "grand conspiracy" probe
Quiñones' office in Fort Pierce oversaw the so-called "grand conspiracy" investigation, which is examining whether former intelligence officials under the Obama and Biden administrations conspired to keep Trump out of office through a series of criminal and intelligence investigations, CBS News reported. The probe is also separately looking at whether former CIA Director John Brennan lied to Congress about the agency's role in an intelligence assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The investigation has generated extensive grand jury activity but has not produced charges establishing the alleged overarching conspiracy. It has also seen a string of departures: Joe diGenova, a former U.S. attorney in Washington, quit in September amid disagreements with the deputy attorney general's office over how the case was being managed, and former White House attorney Kurt Olsen later left the case as well, according to CBS News. In late October, Blanche told reporters that Quiñones "always has been in charge" of the probe and that "there's no frustration" with its pace.
Castro case and a Cuba task force
A Miami native and the son of Cuban refugees, Quiñones was nominated by Trump in 2025 while serving as a state trial judge in Miami-Dade County. The Justice Department has described him as a decorated veteran with more than 23 years of service in the U.S. Air Force and Army. As U.S. attorney, he set up a Cuba-focused task force and oversaw the criminal prosecution of former Cuban leader Raúl Castro and five others in connection with the Cuban military's 1996 downing of two civilian planes. His office has also been working on a criminal investigation targeting former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, CBS News reported.
Photo: Getty Images via NBC Miami
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