An assistant U.S. attorney involved in prosecuting New York City Mayor Eric Adams became at least the seventh person to ...

The Justice Department is in crisis after Trump-appointed officials pressured attorneys to drop a corruption case against NYC ...

The episode crystallizes Trump’s politicization of usually independent government functions, and in this case some ...

Two top-tier prosecutors in the Southern District of New York and five officials in the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section opted to abruptly leave their jobs in the span of about 24 hours instead of ...

A seventh federal prosecutor on Friday resigned after the Department of Justice ordered criminal corruption charges against ...

Danielle Sassoon resigned rather than going along with an order to drop charges against New York City mayor Eric Adams, ...

The Trump team has rarely if ever faced such resistance from within the government, a move that may pave the way for further ...

The federal case against Mayor Eric Adams has gone through a roller coaster of events since he became the first sitting New ...

On Valentine's Day 2025, the news broke that Southern District of New York federal prosecutor Hagan Scotten was resigning ...

President Donald Trumps push to assert control over the U.S. government led to the resignation of Danielle Sassoon, acting ...

The Justice Department's motion to drop charges against Mayor Adams ends a days-long public over the decision to abandon the case.