Danielle Sassoon, the interim U.S. attorney in Manhattan, has resigned after the Justice Department ordered her to drop the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Sassoon was one ...

Two other Justice Department officials resigned after being ordered to dismiss corruption charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams.

Danielle Sassoon, who resigned from her position ... including the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams that the Trump administration has directed be dropped.

Read the resignation letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi sent by former acting U.S. attorney Danielle Sassoon.

Danielle Sassoon, who was selected by President ... quit in protest over the order to drop the Adams charges. So did the acting head of Justice’s Criminal Division, Kevin Driscoll, and the ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams rejected allegations by former acting New York U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon that his attorneys had offered "what amounted to a quid pro quo" involving helping ...

Danielle Sassoon resigned Thursday as the acting ... office in Manhattan and the Justice Department over an order to let Adams off the hook. A senior Justice Department official directed New ...

By Michael Rothfeld Danielle R. Sassoon, the interim U.S. attorney for Manhattan who resigned rather than drop the prosecution of Mayor Eric Adams, explained her refusal in a Feb. 12 letter to U.S ...

When Danielle Sassoon's college newspaper asked her two decades ago for three words she would use to describe herself, the first word the future lawyer said was "independent." ...

The corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York may be the exception. On Thursday, Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, Danielle R. Sassoon, resigned rather than obey an order to seek ...

The Trump transition had recently made Danielle Sassoon the acting U.S. Attorney until Mr. Trump’s nominee is confirmed. But Ms. Sassoon had watched the prosecution of Mr. Adams and didn’t ...