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U.S. Attorney David Iglesias will resign his post in the next few months, an office spokesman said today.

After discussions with officials in Washington, D.C., Iglesias decided he would move on, U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman Norm Cairns said. No other information was released.

The U.S. Attorney's Office has been involved in two high-profile investigations of public corruption in New Mexico this year with mixed results.

Former state Treasurer Robert Vigil was convicted of one count of extortion this fall but acquitted on 23 counts of racketeering and extortion. He will be sentenced later this month.

Vigil was tried on essentially the same charges earlier in the year. The trial ended in a hung jury, with one juror holding out against any guilty verdict.

Rumors have also swirled for months about an investigation into corruption involving major public construction projects in Bernalillo County including the state District Courthouse and Metro Courthouse.

An FBI spokesman confirmed in October that an investigation had been forwarded to Iglesias' office - although he declined to specify details. Since then indictments have regularly been expected and then delayed.

Details that have emerged about the investigation suggest it centers on kickbacks paid for work on the two courthouses. It arose from testimony in a lawsuit between partners in an engineering firm. One partner suggested that improper payments were made to former state Sen. Manny Aragon, a consultant for the company.

Iglesias, 48, was appointed to his post as the state's top federal law enforcement officer in 2001 by President George W. Bush. He was the first Hispanic to serve as U.S. attorney since the Nixon administration.

He lost the general election for state attorney general in 1998 to Patricia Madrid.

His other legal experience includes assistant state attorney general, office of special prosecutions, 1988-91; assistant city attorney for Albuquerque, civil rights division, 1991-94; White House fellow, 1994-95; chief counsel for the state Risk Management Division, 1988-91.

From 1985-88, he was lieutenant in the Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps. A hazing case in Cuba that he worked on was turned into the movie "A Few Good Men."