U.S. Attorney resigns from Middle District of Florida

TAMPA — The U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, Robert E. O'Neill, announced his resignation from the position in a statement today.

O'Neill says he is leaving the post after a job offer from Freeh Group International Solutions LLC, a global risk-management firm based in Wilmington, Del. “It was an offer that I could not pass upon,” O'Neill says in the statement.

The firm was founded by Louis J. Freeh, a former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and former U.S. District Judge, and specializes in the areas of business integrity and compliance, safety and security and investigations and due diligence, the statement says.