A top Trump appointee guided Mr. Adams’s legal team as they crafted an argument for dismissing corruption charges against the ...

The U.S. Department of Justice formally filed court paperwork to dismiss federal corruption charges against New York City ...

An assistant U.S. attorney involved in prosecuting New York City Mayor Eric Adams became at least the seventh person to resign from the Justice Department in a standoff over the future of the ...

Hagan Scotten said he was never directed to dismiss the charges from head SDNY attorney Danielle Sassoon in a hostile letter to acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove.

The federal prosecutor who received orders to drop charges against Eric Adams said that the Trump administration was seeking the mayor’s cooperation on immigration enforcement.

Danielle Sassoon and her colleagues opposed dropping corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams.

Several Democrats in both chambers of Congress celebrated the conservative U.S. attorney from the Southern District of New ...

This is an attempt to bring the office to its knees,” said one Southern District alumnus of efforts by Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove to force the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office to dismiss the ...

DOJ lawyers pride themselves on working for an organization that is unique among federal agencies in its independence from politics—for now.

On Monday, the acting deputy attorney general, Emil Bove, issued a memo to prosecutors at Manhattan ordering that they ...

In an escalation of tensions within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove has placed ...