U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves has announced that he will resign, effective Jan 16, before President-elect Trump can fire him upon returning to the White House.

Graves has drawn sharp criticism for his zealous pursuit of J6 defendants while choosing not to criminally charge Hunter Biden or to charge a large number of the people arrested as part of a violent crime wave in Washington D.C.

Meanwhile Graves sparked controversy when he confirmed the allegations of IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley that he would not collaborate with Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss in filing tax charges against Hunter Biden, arguing that he had no way to “get up to speed on everything” involved in the case.

Hunter was later convicted of tax fraud and 3 gun felonies but was pardoned by his father President Joe Biden last month.

The New York Post reports that Graves, whose office prosecutes both federal and local crimes in the nation’s capital, chose not to charge an astonishing 67% of cases resulting in an arrest in fiscal year 2022 and only 56% of such cases in fiscal 2023.

Grave’s decision to forgo criminal prosecutions of non-political suspects while sparing no expense to go after J6 defendants led Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to threaten to file impeachment charges against him in the last Congressional session.

In a statement announcing his resignation, Graves stated, “Serving as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia has been the honor of a lifetime.”

Perhaps he’s angling for a belated gift from the outgoing administration, in the form of a pardon.