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 more than $3.6 billion in cryptocurrency from a hacking scheme, and indicting members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for a hack and leak operation against President-elect Donald Trump's campaign.
As part of Graves' investigation into Jan. 6, 1,572 people have been charged; about 598 were charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement agents or officers or obstructing those officers during a civil disorder, and about 171 defendants charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officers.
Some 996 people have pleaded guilty, Graves said.
"Because politically motivated violence and destruction rip at the fabric of our society, Mr. Graves made federally prosecuting such crimes a priority," his office said in a press release.
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., cheered Graves' resignation, calling him "the pawn at the helm of DOJ's targeting of Joe Biden's political opponents."
"The Swamp knows that justice is coming," Biggs wrote on social media.
Graves touted his prosecutions of climate activists who targeted priceless artwork and a copy of the Constitution and has filed charges against people who assaulted police and destroyed federal property during a protest over the Israel-Hamas war.
Bridget Fitzpatrick will replace Graves.
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