Kurt Olsen has resigned from the Justice Department team examining alleged conspiracies against President Trump, another exit from a Florida-based inquiry that has yet to bring charges.

CBS News reported Monday that sources familiar with the matter said Olsen left the department while assigned to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.

He had been working on what officials call the “grand conspiracy” investigation, which targets Obama- and Biden-era officials. The probe has produced no charges so far.

Olsen’s exit follows the resignation of Joe diGenova earlier this month. Attorney General Todd Blanche had tapped diGenova for the work. Sources said diGenova left amid tensions with senior Justice Department officials over how the cases were managed and how fast they moved.

Reuters reported that one source said Olsen grew disillusioned with the investigation after diGenova stepped down. The outlet described the Miami-based inquiry as a criminal probe into whether Trump’s rights were violated in earlier investigations, including the Russia assessment and the Mar-a-Lago documents case.

Olsen’s path from election fights to federal probes

The FBI previously described Olsen as having worked out of the White House as a “Presidentially appointed Director of Election Security and Integrity.”

In 2020, he was an attorney working with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to urge the Supreme Court to overturn the election results. That record later put him in the sights of House investigators.

In 2022, the House Jan. 6 select committee subpoenaed Olsen. The subpoena alleged he “contacted various high-level officials at the Department of Justice” at the president’s direction to discuss filing challenges to the election results. The committee also said Olsen spoke multiple times with Trump on Jan. 6, 2021.

Those contacts and challenges remain a flashpoint for critics who treat any push for election scrutiny as disloyalty. Supporters see a lawyer who pressed hard questions about 2020 rules and later helped examine whether prior federal cases crossed legal lines.

Political pressure of that kind is familiar territory, the same kind of sudden fallout that surfaces when a Texas Democrat PAC fires an organizer over vote-payment remarks, or when other high-stakes probes force abrupt staff moves.

Fulton County referral and the ballot boxes

Olsen made the Fulton County election case referral to the FBI. Agents executed a search warrant earlier this year. An FBI affidavit showed they seized dozens of boxes of ballots and other materials from the 2020 election.

A source with direct knowledge said Olsen also made several other 2020 election-related referrals to the Justice Department. Those steps put real evidence, not press releases, into federal hands.

Internal turmoil often shadows big investigations. A whistleblower inside Letitia James’ office alleged staff were told to target Trump and his allies, a reminder that motive and process matter as much as headlines.

Staff churn on the “grand conspiracy” team

Olsen is one of several prosecutors in recent days to leave the team working the grand conspiracy case. One source said some out-of-state attorneys held temporary assignments and are returning to their home offices.

The Justice Department has since hired two new former prosecutors to join the investigative team, a source said. CBS News asked Olsen for comment and reached out to the department; no responses were quoted.

Prior CBS reporting noted law enforcement veterans expressing deep concerns that the Trump Justice Department’s criminal investigation into Brennan and others was being stacked with politically motivated personnel intent on a partisan indictment. That claim sits in tension with the public record so far: resignations, temporary reassignments, new hires, and still no charges.

High-profile inquiries create their own gravity. Tom Homan’s confirmation of an ICE criminal investigation into Ilhan Omar over marriage and immigration fraud allegations shows how quickly official scrutiny can reorder political assumptions.

What the exits do, and do not, prove

No absolute calendar date beyond “Monday” was given for the sources’ account of Olsen’s resignation. No on-record reason from Olsen appears in the reporting. No formal case caption beyond the “grand conspiracy” label is detailed in the available accounts.

What is clear is the sequence. DiGenova left after clashes over pace and management. Olsen left next. New lawyers were brought in. Boxes of ballots were already seized after the Fulton County referral. The inquiry into alleged misconduct by prior officials continues without indictments to date.

Abrupt blocks and personnel shocks are part of modern Washington. The State Department block on a Mamdani official’s planned meeting with Iran’s U.N. ambassador is another example of sudden institutional pushback that readers of resignation news watch closely.

Critics will lean on the Jan. 6 committee’s framing and the “election denier” label. The record shows a lawyer who challenged 2020 results in court, later referred election cases for FBI review, and then worked a DOJ probe into whether Trump’s rights were violated, before walking away as the team turned over.

Accountability work is measured by evidence and results, not by who stays longest on the letterhead. When cases stall and senior lawyers leave, the public is right to demand a clear accounting of pace, direction, and proof.