2026年11月6日 美国东部时间上午10:59 / CBS新闻
负责监督针对奥巴马和拜登时期情报官员的所谓“大阴谋”调查的南佛罗里达州首席联邦检察官于上周五突然辞职，这是受内部纠纷和可行性疑虑困扰的司法部调查又一次引人注目的人事变动。
司法部长托德·布兰奇宣布了佛罗里达州南区联邦检察官杰森·雷丁·基尼奥内斯的辞职消息，并称赞他在打击暴力犯罪、人口贩运和跨国犯罪组织方面的工作。
这份声明未对他的离职作出解释。
基尼奥内斯在X平台的一篇帖子中感谢特朗普总统给予的机会，并表示能与南区的同事共事是“一生的荣幸”。他写道：“我为我们共同取得的成就感到无比自豪，也非常感谢能有机会为我们伟大的国家服务。”
他的离职对设在皮尔斯堡的调查来说是最新一次打击，该调查正在调查两任民主党政府时期的前情报官员是否通过一系列刑事和情报调查合谋阻止特朗普当选。调查还另行聚焦于前中央情报局局长约翰·布伦南是否就该机构在形成一份关于俄罗斯试图干预2016年总统选举的情报评估中所扮演的角色向国会撒谎。
基尼奥内斯离职之前，曾在20世纪80年代担任华盛顿特区联邦检察官的乔·迪吉诺瓦也于9月份突然退出，原因是他在调查管理问题上与司法部副部长办公室存在分歧。
据此前CBS新闻消息，在司法部高层领导派遣代理司法部副部长特伦特·麦科特办公室的两名律师前往佛罗里达试图协助管理该案后，迪吉诺瓦的不满达到顶点，而迪吉诺瓦和基尼奥内斯都对此表示抵制。
此后，曾试图推翻2020年选举结果的前白宫律师库尔特·奥尔森也退出了该案，其他几名临时参与调查的人员在派驻期限结束后返回了各自所属的联邦检察官办公室。
CBS新闻此前报道，今年早些时候，基尼奥内斯办公室负责该调查的首席职业检察官因对证据力度表示担忧也被调离。
布兰奇在10月底对记者表示，基尼奥内斯“始终负责”该调查，并淡化了此前人员离职的情况，称“人员来来去去是常态”。
布兰奇说：“我们将让调查按应有的方式继续进行。”并补充道，调查的进度“没有任何问题”。
该调查已经开展了大量大陪审团相关工作，但尚未提起指控以确立所谓的总体阴谋。
基尼奥内斯辞职的前一天，司法部刚刚宣布任命负责民权司的助理司法部长哈米特·迪隆离职。基尼奥内斯是古巴难民的儿子，他一直试图通过调查那些犯下危害美国罪行的古巴共产党政府官员，在南佛罗里达建立自己的声望。
今年早些时候，他成立了一个专注于古巴问题的特别工作组，汇集了多个机构的执法人员开展调查。他还监督了对前古巴领导人劳尔·卡斯特罗及其他五人的刑事起诉，这些人涉嫌参与30年前古巴军方击落两架飞机的事件。
据CBS新闻此前报道，此外，他的办公室一直在开展一项针对委内瑞拉前领导人尼古拉斯·马杜罗的新刑事调查，马杜罗目前被关押在纽约市一所监狱，面临毒品和酷刑相关的刑事指控。
一名消息人士此前告诉CBS新闻，这项总部位于迈阿密的调查聚焦于腐败问题，启动于马杜罗的亲密商业伙伴、曾任委内瑞拉工业和国家生产部长的阿莱克斯·萨布被驱逐到美国并因涉嫌参与洗钱阴谋被起诉前不久。
萨布此后已在该案中认罪，这让观察人士质疑他是否可能同意合作，向检察官提供针对马杜罗的证据。
Top DOJ official resigns amid questions surrounding “grand conspiracy” probe
November 6, 2026 / 10:59 AM EST / CBS News
The top federal prosecutor in South Florida who was overseeing the so-called “grand conspiracy” investigation into Obama- and Biden-era intelligence officials abruptly resigned on Friday, marking another high-profile departure from a Justice Department inquiry plagued by internal disputes and doubts about its viability.
Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the resignation of Jason Reding Quiñones, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and praised him for his work tackling violent crime, trafficking and transnational criminal organizations.
The statement offered no explanation for his departure.
In a post on X, Quiñones thanked President Trump for the opportunity and said it had been “the privilege of a lifetime to serve” alongside his colleagues in the Southern District. “I leave with immense pride in what we accomplished together and profound gratitude for the opportunity to serve our great nation,” he wrote.
His exit is the latest blow to the investigation based in Fort Pierce, which is probing whether former intelligence officials under two different Democratic administrations conspired to keep Mr. Trump out of office through a series of criminal and intelligence investigations. The probe is also separately focusing on whether former CIA Director John Brennan lied to Congress about the agency’s role in the creation of an intelligence assessment that determined Russia had tried to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
Quiñones’ departure comes after Joe diGenova, a former U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., in the 1980s, also abruptly quit his role in September amid disagreements with the Deputy Attorney General’s Office over the management of the investigation.
Things came to a head with diGenova after senior Justice Department leaders sent two attorneys from Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter’s office to Florida to try to help manage the case, which both diGenova and Quiñones resisted, sources previously told CBS News.
Since then, Kurt Olsen, a former White House attorney who was known for his efforts to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election, also resigned from the case, while several others who were temporarily assigned to the probe returned to their home U.S. attorney’s offices after their details came to an end.
Earlier in the year, the lead career prosecutor in Quiñones’ office who was overseeing the investigation was also sidelined after she expressed concerns about the strength of the evidence, CBS News previously reported.
Blanche told reporters in late October that Quiñones “always has been in charge” of the investigation and downplayed prior departures from the investigation, saying “people leave and stay all the time.”
“We’re going to let that investigation continue as it should,” Blanche said, adding, “there’s no frustration” with the pace of the probe.
The investigation has generated extensive grand jury activity but has yet to produce charges establishing the alleged overarching conspiracy.
Quiñones’ resignation comes just a day after the Justice Department announced the departure of Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. The son of Cuban refugees, Quiñones has tried to make a name for himself in South Florida by pursuing investigations into communist Cuban government officials who have committed crimes impacting the United States.
Earlier this year, he established a Cuba-focused task force that brought together law enforcement agents from multiple agencies to work on investigations. He also oversaw the criminal prosecution of former Cuban leader Raúl Castro and five others in connection with the Cuban military’s fatal downing of two planes 30 years ago.
Separately, his office has also been working on a new criminal investigation targeting former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, who is in a jail in New York City awaiting trial on criminal drug and torture charges, CBS News previously reported.
The Miami-based investigation is focused on corruption, one source previously told CBS News, and began shortly before Alex Saab, a close business associate of Maduro who served as Venezuela’s minister of industry and national production, was deported to the U.S. and indicted for his alleged role in a money-laundering conspiracy scheme.
Saab has since pleaded guilty in the case, raising questions among observers about whether he might agree to cooperate and provide prosecutors with evidence against Maduro.
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