WASHINGTON — A top prosecutor in DC’s US attorney’s office resigned Tuesday after refusing to help launch an investigation into a Biden administration environmental contract. Denise Cheung ...

New York Times reports that Sassoon resigned after being ordered by the Justice Department to drop a corruption case against New York City Mayor, Eric Adams.

A senior federal prosecutor in Washington resigned on Tuesday, citing what she called an improper demand by appointees of President Donald Trump's administration to launch a criminal probe of a ...

7th prosecutor on Adams case resigns, slams Trump DOJ’s ‘dismissal-with-leverage’ gambit on way out: ‘Never going to be me’ ...

In a letter addressed to interim US Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin, Cheung wrote that the senior official pressured her to criminally investigate whether a federal agency had lawfully ...

The federal prosecutor who helped steer the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot has condemned the decision to pardon some 1,500 defendants. The post ‘Affront to the independence of ...

Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, one of the most powerful figures in US law enforcement, has quit ...

The resignation of the prosecutor, Denise Cheung, comes at a turbulent moment at the Justice Department, as President Trump and his appointees seek to exert control over law enforcement actions.

Sassoon said federal prosecutors planned to charge Adams with destroying evidence and instructing others to do so, which would have added to his case.

Smith led the federal cases against Donald Trump on charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat and mishandling of classified documents. Trump suggested he might seek retribution.

The top criminal prosecutor in the Washington, D.C. U.S. attorney's office has abruptly resigned amid pressure from Trump officials.