US attorney for DC to step down before Trump inauguration

The prosecutor in charge of the Justice Department's prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol said he would step down Jan. 16.

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves announced Monday that he will step down from the position on Jan. 16, 2025, days before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Graves, confirmed by the Senate in October 2021, led the Justice Department’s investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, the largest prosecution in the department’s history.

“Serving as the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia has been the honor of a lifetime,” Graves said in a statement announcing his resignation. “I am deeply thankful to Congresswoman [Eleanor] Holmes Norton for recommending me; to President [Joe] Biden for nominating me; and to Attorney General [Merrick] Garland for placing his trust in me.”

Graves said that Principal Assistant U.S. Attorney Bridget Fitzpatrick would take over as acting U.S. attorney upon his resignation. Fitzpatrick came to the Justice Department in 2022, after serving as the Security and Exchange Commission’s chief litigation counsel.

Before joining the SEC in 2012, Fitzpatrick worked with Graves in the U.S. attorney’s office in both the fraud and public corruption units.

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