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US Attorney Jill Steinberg Resigns, Georgia 2025
Savannah, GA – U.S. Attorney Jill E. Steinberg has announced her resignation from her presidentially appointed position in the Southern District of Georgia U.S. Attorney’s Office, effective Friday, January 17, 2025.
During her tenure, Steinberg oversaw a statewide investigation that identified unconstitutional conditions at Georgia’s state prisons, worked to hold accountable individuals responsible for more than $12 million in pandemic relief fraud, and successfully prosecuted significant criminal cases, including drug trafficking conspiracies, large-scale fraud operations, child sexual exploitation crimes, and nearly 200 cases involving illegal firearms possession.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office concluded a statewide investigation that identified unconstitutional conditions at Georgia’s state prisons; worked to hold accountable individuals responsible for more than $12 million in pandemic relief fraud; and successfully prosecuted significant criminal cases including drug trafficking conspiracies, large-scale fraud operations, child sexual exploitation crimes, and nearly 200 cases involving illegal firearms possession.
Highlights of Steinberg’s tenure include:
- Criminal prosecutions for drugs, violent crime
- Operation Ghost Busted, the largest single drug trafficking indictment returned in the Southern District of Georgia, was designed to address, and did in fact address, the significant uptick of overdose deaths in the Brunswick, Georgia, area. The defendants, many of them affiliated with a white supremacist gang, collectively have been sentenced to more than 4,000 months in prison, including one defendant who received a life sentence.
- In Operation Night Drop, the U.S. Attorney’s Office indicted 15 defendants – many of them inmates in Georgia state prisons – for operating a widespread methamphetamine trafficking operation that used drones to deliver contraband to incarcerated conspirators.
- The U.S. Attorney’s Office successfully prosecuted a violent extremist who used a weapon of mass destruction on a Savannah street, and another who stalked a woman before using an explosive on her home.
- U.S. Attorney Steinberg took great care to ensure federal resources were used to vigorously defend against those who threatened our national security; the office prosecuted a hostile foreign state actor for exporting restricted equipment and information, and an individual for leaking classified information.
- Protecting the vulnerable
- The U.S. Attorney’s Office emphasized the protection of our most vulnerable citizens from sexual predators, including the prosecution of a defendant sentenced to 100 years in federal prison for sexually abusing multiple children, a defendant indicted for surreptitiously recording unclothed images of minors in a gym, and multiple defendants indicted as part of a multi-agency operation aimed at identifying online predators.
- The office also reached a settlement with a Savannah-area landlord who engaged in a pattern and practice of sexually harassing female tenants for more than 15 years, and then coordinated a multi-agency community roundtable to provide public education on the rights of tenants in rental housing.
- Fighting financial fraud
- The U.S. Attorney’s Office prosecuted the supervisor of the Glynn County public works department for embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money for his own personal benefit.
- An individual who used the complex and emerging world of cryptocurrency to defraud multiple individual victims of over a million dollars was sent to prison.
- An office manager who abused her position of trust to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars
"Serving as U.S. Attorney has been a distinct honor and privilege, and I am grateful for the hard work, camaraderie, and friendship of the dedicated professionals who continue to serve on behalf of the American people," said U.S. Attorney Steinberg. "Representing the United States in court is an incredible responsibility, and those who seek justice on behalf of our nation deserve our lasting gratitude. I am proud to have served alongside them."
Key Facts
- State: Georgia
- Category: Public Corruption
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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