PERSON: Joe Thompson

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Joseph H. Thompson is an American lawyer who served as the acting United States attorney for the District of Minnesota from June 2 to October 10, 2025. From 2014 to 2025, he served as a federal prosecutor in that office.

Thompson was chief of the Fraud & Public Corruption section in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, prosecuting fraud against state and federal government programs. He resigned from that position in January 2026 when he refused to comply with pressure from the Department of Justice under the second Donald Trump Administration to launch an investigation into the widow of Renée Good, a Minneapolis resident shot and killed by an ICE agent.

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