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Dana Boente, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, is resigning and will leave office when a replacement is confirmed.

Boente was confirmed in 2015 after serving in an acting capacity. He is also the acting assistant attorney general of the Department of Justice’s National Security Division and was briefly the acting U.S. attorney general after President Donald Trump fired former acting Attorney General Sally Yates.

Boente would not be making any comment Friday, a spokesman said.

“I will be around for a while and hope to visit with all of you to discuss how much the office and our work means to each of us,” Boente wrote in a letter to the lawyers he oversees, according to The Washington Post. “I have so much respect for you and the work you do every day.”

The Eastern District of Virginia covers a crescent from Northern Virginia through central Virginia and Richmond to Hampton Roads. With 6 million residents, it is also home to the Pentagon, the CIA, internet service providers and the world’s largest naval base. The office handles numerous high-profile and national security cases.

Boente oversaw the corruption prosecution of former Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen McDonnell, in 2014.