Under Pressure to Dismiss Charges, Career Prosecutors Weighed Stark Options
Lawyers in the Justice Department’s public integrity section came to believe that to save their jobs, one of them would have ...
Seven Former Manhattan U.S. Attorneys Voice Support for Sassoon
The former prosecutors, both Democrats and Republicans, sharply criticized the Justice Department’s intention to investigate ...
Democrats cheer conservative US attorney who resigned over Adams case
Several Democrats in both chambers of Congress celebrated the conservative U.S. attorney from the Southern District of New ...
Top DOJ officials, federal prosecutor resign after orders to drop Adams case
The former acting New York U.S. attorney said Adams' attorneys had offered "what amounted to a quid pro quo" — helping the ...
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DOJ lawyers pride themselves on working for an organization that is unique among federal agencies in its independence from politics—for now.
Meet the acting U.S. attorney who quit over Eric Adams case
Danielle Sassoon quit her job on Thursday after refusing a Trump administration demand to seek dismissal of bribery charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams.
Top US prosecutors resign rather than drop Adams case
The interim US attorney for the Southern District and five senior Justice Department officials quit following an order to ...
Federal prosecutors in New York and Washington resign after refusing to drop Adams charges
At least six prosecutors, including the acting U.S. attorney in Manhattan, have stepped down over the DOJ order to dismiss ...
DOJ’s Push to Toss Adams Case Fuels Clash With Prosecutors (1)
Manhattan’s chief federal prosecutor and senior Justice Department officials in Washington resigned rather than carry out an ...