Former US Attorney Jessica Aber had 'medical issue' prior to unexpected death: source

The erstwhile United States lawyer who was recovered dormant implicit the play had suffered from a "longstanding aesculapian issue," Fox News has learned.

The assemblage of Jessica D. Aber, 43, was discovered astatine an Alexandria, Virginia, residence connected Saturday. Authorities did not merchandise details astir her death, but a household person told Fox News connected Sunday that the decedent suffered from a chronic aesculapian condition.

"Police judge the decease was the effect of a longstanding aesculapian issue," the root said.

The Alexandria Police Department (APD) wrote connected Saturday that it had received a telephone astir an "unresponsive woman" astatine astir 9:18 a.m. that morning.

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Jessica Aber, seen present successful 2023, resigned from her presumption connected Jan. 20, 2025. (REUTERS/Tom Brenner)

"As a substance of protocol, an probe is underway surrounding the circumstances of her death," the APD's connection read. "The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia volition find the origin and mode of death."

Aber worked arsenic the U.S. lawyer for the Eastern District of Virginia from 2021 to 2025, having been appointed by erstwhile President Joe Biden. She stepped down from her presumption connected Jan. 20, the aforesaid time that President Donald Trump took office, and called her relation "an grant beyond measure" successful her resignation letter.

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Jessica D. Aber, 43, was recovered dormant connected Mar. 22. (U.S. Department of Justice Archives)

"I americium profoundly grateful to senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine and to President Biden for the accidental to pb this bureau and to Attorney General Garland for his steadfast leadership," the lawyer wrote. "I americium arrogant of the enactment we person done with our federal, authorities and section instrumentality enforcement partners to enforce the instrumentality and physique assemblage trust."

In a connection posted connected X Saturday, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi expressed her condolences implicit Aber's death.

"The nonaccomplishment of Jessica Aber, erstwhile U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, is profoundly tragic," Bondi wrote. "Our hearts and prayers spell retired to her household and friends during this profoundly hard time."

U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Jessica Aber speaks during a property league astatine the U.S. Department of Justice connected December 6, 2023 successful Washington, DC.  (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

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Authorities are actively investigating Aber's death.