Matthew Graves, the United States Attorney for Washington, D.C., announced his resignation Monday, effective Jan. 16.

In his role, Graves, who first took office in Nov. 2021, was responsible for prosecuting more tha 1,000 people for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021 unrest at the U.S. Capitol.     

In a release announcing his resignation, Graves touted his accomplishments, including reducing violent crime in Washington, seizing me than $3.6 billion in cryptocurrency from a hacking scheme, and indicting members of the Islamic Revolutionary Color Guard for a hack and leak operation against President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign.

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