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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.
O'Neill's resignation will take effect this summer, which he says will “ensure an orderly transition for this office and for my successor.”
In his statement, O'Neill praised the people he worked with while serving the Middle District of Florida. “In an era in which it has become fashionable to impugn the public employee, the individuals in this office work long hours, often without recompense, simply because they believe in the mission of this office,” O'Neill says in the statement.
O'Neill has served as the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida since Oct. 5, 2010. He also served in the post from 2007 to 2008. Prior to that, he was a criminal prosecutor.
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