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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Mitchell Armentrout

Veteran prosecutor slams Kim Foxx in blistering resignation letter: ‘Zero confidence’ in her leadership

Then-Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy speaks to reporters at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in December 2021. Murphy issued a scathing criticism of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx in a resignation letter sent Friday. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

A 25-year veteran prosecutor issued a stinging rebuke of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx in a letter announcing his resignation Friday, slamming his now former boss for being “more concerned with political narratives and agendas than with victims and prosecuting violent crime.”

Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy described an understaffed office in turmoil in his email to colleagues, saying, “I cannot continue to work for an Administration I no longer respect.”

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