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Former Justice Department (DOJ) prosecutor Jay Bratt, who was part of special counsel Jack Smith’s team that oversaw President-elect Donald Trump’s classified documents case, resigned from the department last week, a DOJ official said Monday. 

Bratt, a senior national security official at the department, resigned Friday as Trump and his team prepare to return to the White House later this month, according to Reuters. Trump is set to be inaugurated Jan. 20. 

Bratt helped oversee the department’s handling of Trump’s classified documents case in Florida. Trump has been accused of mishandling the documents by improperly taking them from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach following his first term in office. 

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump nominee, dismissed the case in July after ruling that Smith was improperly appointed. But prosecutors were in the process of appealing the decision when Trump won reelection. They have since dropped the appeal, but could revive the case against Trump’s associates Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, who were accused of obstructing the investigation. 

Bratt, who has spent decades in the Justice Department, has been accused of misconduct by Nauta’s lawyer Stanley Woodward, who filed a complaint against Bratt as part of a bid to dismiss the charges. Woodward claimed Bratt tried to raise his application to be a local judge in Washington, D.C., as a means to coerce Nauta to cooperate.

Bratt and his team have denied acting improperly, and the attorney claimed he raised the application as a professional courtesy.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.