Former Minnesota federal prosecutors launch private defense firm
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Two of the federal prosecutors in the Feeding Our Future case have set up their own private defense firm. The attorneys were part of a wave of recent resignations from the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office.
Joe Thompson and Harry Jacobs were among a half-dozen assistant U.S. attorneys to quit last month. Others followed more recently.
That was after Justice Department leaders refused to let state police help investigate the shooting of Renee Macklin Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross and also pressured federal prosecutors to investigate Good’s widow.
Thompson and Jacobs started a private firm specializing in white collar defense, internal investigations and civil litigation.
The two played key roles in the Feeding Our Future case, in which they charged 78 people with stealing $300 million from taxpayer funded child nutrition programs. Jurors convicted seven at two separate trials. Fifty-one others pleaded guilty.
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