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43-year-old US prosecutor found dead
Updated on March 24, 2025 – 00:58 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
A 43-year-old prosecutor has been found dead in the US state of Virginia. She was only divorced out of office in January. On the day of Trump’s swearing in.
Former US prosecutor Jessica was found dead in her house on Saturday morning in Alexandria, in the state of Virginia. According to American media reports, the Alexandria police announced this. As the authorities announced, a medical complication is suspected as the cause of death.
The 43-year-old was only left out of office in January. Previously, she worked as a public prosecutor for the district of Eastern District of Virginia for three years. She was nominated for former US President Joe Biden. But left the judicial authority on January 20, and the reigning President Donald Trump had been sworn in on that day. The reason for your departure was not mentioned.
Her deputy Eric S. Siebert was appointed successor. “We are inconsolably about the death of our girlfriend and former colleague, but the US prosecutor Jessica,” said Siebert in a press release. “As a leader, mentor and prosecutor, she was unsurpassed, and as a person she is simply irreplaceable.”
As a prosecutor, she was entrusted with cases of national scope. Among other things, she directed investigations in the field of terrorism, gait crime and also espionage. Most recently, in the case of a CIA employee, which had made sensitive data on the military actions of Israel against Iran on a pro-Iranian telegram channel. He threatens a long -term prison sentence.
She also investigated the IT company ELEVIEW International Inc. This is said to have violated the USA sanctions in the United States and delivered high technology to the Putin regime. As the broadcaster NBC News from circles of the Ministry of Justice reports, there is no evidence of external influence in the death of the former prosecutor. The final cause of death must now result in the further investigations.
“Jess was brilliant, but more importantly her sense of justice, her humanity and her ability to change the world in a positive way, even during her short time,” said the US district judge M. Hannah Lauck, who had once worked as a legal trainee for the “Washington Post”. “My family lost her rock and I lost a friend. She was a gold soul and I am proud to have known her.”