Danielle Sassoon resigned after Trump's justice department ordered her to drop the corruption case against New York Mayor ...

A crisis at the department over the Eric Adams case is an early test of the criminal justice system’s resilience against a ...

She was appointed as the interim U.S. Attorney for the district on Jan. 21 and had not brought the initial charges against ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has dismissed allegations that he attempted to strike a deal with the Trump administration to ...

Bove said prosecutors indicted Adams too close to the election and may have targeted him because of his criticism of the ...

Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, Danielle Sassoon, and five high-ranking Justice Department officials resigned Thursday ...

While it would be highly unusual for the acting No. 2 at the Justice Department to take such a role in a criminal case, there ...

Sassoon’s refusal followed a long, strange courtship between Adams, a Democrat who not so long ago called himself the “Biden ...

Danielle Sassoon quit her job on Thursday after refusing a Trump administration demand to seek dismissal of bribery charges ...

At least six prosecutors, including the acting U.S. attorney in Manhattan, have stepped down over the DOJ order to dismiss ...

Mass resignations among leading federal prosecutors are rare, but that's what happened in the DOJ's handling of the New York ...