Who is Danielle Sassoon, the US attorney who resigned rather than drop charges against Eric Adams?
Danielle Sassoon had served just three weeks as interim U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York when she penned a ...
Acting US attorney in New York and five others quit after being told to drop Eric Adams case
Three senior Justice Department officials in New York and Washington resigned Thursday instead of complying with orders from ...
US prosecutors formally ask judge to drop Eric Adams case
Federal prosecutors on Friday formally asked a judge to drop bribery charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams, after a ...
‘It was never going to be me’: How Trump’s DOJ sparked a crisis and mass resignations over the Eric Adams case
The morning after the mass resignation of prosecutors sparked a crisis inside the Trump Justice Department, acting Deputy ...
Justice Department asks court to dismiss corruption charges against New York Mayor Adams
Prosecutors contend the case was marred by appearances of impropriety and that letting it continue would interfere with the ...
The Cracks in the Lower Court Strategy Against Trump Are Starting to Show
If the president’s defiance continues, the standoff will create the prospect of a constitutional crisis, and it will be the ...
Treasury watchdog begins audit of Musk DOGE team’s access to the US government’s payment system
The Treasury Department’s Office of Inspector General says it's launching an audit of the security controls for the federal ...
Opinion
A dangerous, damaging civil war at the Justice Department
Danielle Sassoon can’t be dismissed as some kind of liberal deep-stater. Her résumé suggests anything but: registered Republican; participant in the Federalist Society; former law clerk to two ...
How the Justice Dept. Helped Sink Its Own Case Against Eric Adams
A top Trump appointee guided Mr. Adams’s legal team as they crafted an argument for dismissing corruption charges against the ...
Department of Justice files motion to dismiss charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams
The Department of Justice has filed a motion to dismiss the criminal charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.