It was in the morning of Saturday March 22 that the police found the body of Jessica Aber, 43, in a residence in Alexandria (in Virginia, in the United States), after a report. The deceased, who would have died on the spot, was a former federal prosecutor of Virginia, a office known for treating sensitive affairs. If his relatives have mentioned “a long -standing medical problem,” reports The CBS channelJessica Aber’s CV – who investigated an ex -CIA agent, and several Russian nationals accused of spying – gives way to conspiracy theories across the Atlantic.
Jessica Aber had been appointed federal prosecutor of the district is from Virginia in August 2021, by ex-president Joe Biden. It is an important office, since it oversees 300 prosecutors and lawyers, working on national security cases. She then resigned in early 2025, when Donald Trump’s power came to power – a common practice in the United States, the prosecutors being appointed by the presidents.
Hundreds of criminal cases
According to the Washington Post,, During her career, Jessica Aber supervised “hundreds of criminal cases ranging from international terrorism, to the murders committed by gangs, including classified information leaks – as well as an assortment of legal issues concerning the country’s main intelligence agencies, located in the same region of Virginia.”
She notably supervised a case implicating Asif Rahman, a former CIA analyst who had pleaded guilty of having revealed national defense information to people who were not authorized to receive them, details the magazine Newsweek.
Jessica Aber had also investigated Russian nationals present in the United States and suspected of malicious activities: Sergey Ivanov, accused of “money laundering to cybercriminals”, as well as Timur Shakhmametov, pinned for banking fraud and conspiracy. The ex-prosecutor had also made a decision on executives of a company accused of transferring American technologies sensitive to Russian information.
Long -standing disease
His unexplained death immediately sparked a wave of speculation and conspiracy theories on the Internet. It is unclear if the house in which Jessica Aber was found belonged to him, and the identity of the person who warned the authorities.
Police said in a statement that “as a protocol measurement, an investigation was underway on the circumstances of his death”. But she also told her relatives that she did not suspect a criminal act, two family friends told the Washington Post.