Federal Law Enforcement & DOJ

Senior Minnesota federal prosecutors, including First Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson, were fired by the Department of Justice after a dispute over how to handle the federal probe into the shooting of an ICE officer; Thompson reportedly favored treating the incident as an assault/obstruction on a federal officer and opposed investigating the officer’s widow and possible co‑conspirators. Their removal also takes a lead off a major Minnesota welfare‑fraud investigation tied to alleged Somali‑run nonprofit schemes, prompting DOJ to send additional prosecutors and federal agents while Treasury and IRS units probe money‑movement and tax irregularities — a surge that Minnesota officials have criticized as politically driven and harmful to public trust.