A top, conservative prosecutor with SDNY has resigned her position after she refused to to follow a Justice Department order to drop the corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams; two senior prosecutors in Washington resigned as well.
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 immigration and violent crime.”
Danielle R. Sassoon, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced her resignation in a brief statement to colleagues Thursday, the senior official said.
