Source: NBC News
“The top federal prosecutor in New York and two senior federal prosecutors in Washington have resigned after they refused to follow a Justice Department order to drop the corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams, multiple officials said Thursday. The resignations amount to a stunning public rebuke of the Trump administration’s new Justice Department leadership in one of the country’s highest-profile criminal cases. The prosecutors resigned after Emil Bove, the acting U.S. deputy attorney general, issued a memo Monday ordering federal prosecutors in New York to drop the case against Adams, arguing, in part, that it hampered his ability to tackle ‘illegal [sic] immigration and violent crime.’ … After [Danielle R. Sassoon, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York] informed Bove of her resignation, he sent her a blistering eight-page letter in which he blasted her refusal to immediately drop the charges.” (02/13/25)