Matt Sepik

He's been key in the government's prosecution of fraud, particularly the infamous Feeding Our Future case.

Thompson charged 78 people with stealing around $300 million from federal child nutrition programs during the pandemic.

58 have been convicted.

Investigators also uncovered massive Medicaid fraud.

Last month, Thompson estimated that around $9 billion may have been stolen.

The convicted food fraud ringleader is white, but nearly all of the other defendants are Somali-American.

Even though the majority are U.S.

citizens, President Trump is using the fraud as a pretext for his immigration crackdown.

Yeah, they do.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry, a Democrat, is calling the prosecutors heroes.

In a statement, he adds, quote, the people pushing to prosecute Renee's widow are monsters.

And U.S.

Senator Amy Klobuchar, also a Democrat and a former prosecutor herself, says DOJ is politicizing the investigation into goods killing.

Assistant Attorney General Todd Blanch says in a short statement, quote, there is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation.

The DOJ tells me ICE is running its own investigation that's parallel to, quote, any FBI investigation.

But the same source not authorized to speak on the record calls that a lie and says ICE is not investigating the shooting.

Top Justice Department officials have been pushing the Minnesota U.S.

Attorney's Office to investigate Becca Good.

She is the widow of Renee Macklin Good, the woman killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross last week.

The investigation allegedly centers around any possible ties to activist groups she may have.