Matt Sepik

The person with knowledge of the situation I spoke with says there's pressure from DOJ leaders to investigate Good's widow, Becca Good, for ties to activist groups, which is not illegal.

The group also objects to the DOJ's reluctance to investigate Agent Ross and to exclude state police from the investigation.

And the same source tells me that the veteran prosecutors are concerned that Trump's focus on immigration has drawn resources away from the fraud investigations.

Well, it's a loss of big talent.

The attorneys spent their careers with the Justice Department and prosecuted many major cases.

One of them is Melinda Williams, an assistant U.S.

attorney who led the criminal division here.

Another is Joe Thompson.

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.