Minnesota Federal Enforcement

The Associated Press reports that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota has lost more than half its career prosecutors over the past year as veteran attorneys resigned or retired rather than follow Trump administration directives they saw as politicizing justice—especially orders to prioritize immigration cases and to stay away from probing ICE’s fatal shooting of Renee Good. The office, which had more than 40 assistant U.S. attorneys before Trump returned to power, is now down to fewer than two dozen line prosecutors, according to a former official. That turmoil has already let at least one high‑risk defendant walk: 12‑time convicted felon Cory Allen McKay, with a three‑decade violent‑crime record, had federal meth‑trafficking charges abruptly dismissed after his prosecutor retired, and his lawyer says she only learned the case was dropped after he was freed. Eight former permanent or acting U.S. attorneys in Minnesota have issued a public letter saying colleagues 'could not in good conscience participate' in what they describe as a politicized agenda driven from Main Justice. The situation raises alarms among local officials and former prosecutors that some of the state’s worst fraudsters, sexual predators, gang members and drug traffickers may go uncharged or undercharged as the depleted office triages caseloads and cuts deals, an outcome directly at odds with the administration’s public claims that its Minnesota enforcement push is improving public safety.