Danielle Sassoon, who resigned from her position as Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, oversaw all investigations into federal crimes in the Southern District of New York, including the ...

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

NEW YORK — Long before she made headlines by defying a Trump administration order to drop criminal charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams, prosecutor Danielle Sassoon clerked for two very ...

Sassoon, a Republican serving as interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced her resignation in an email to her staff. The move, confirmed by a spokesperson for the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, Danielle Sassoon, and five high-ranking Justice Department officials resigned Thursday after she refused an order to drop corruption charges ...

In an eight-page letter, Danielle Sassoon quit her post as acting US attorney for the Southern District of New York instead of dropping the Adams case, saying the New York mayor’s attorneys ...

Sassoon, who resigned Thursday as Manhattan’s U.S. attorney, writes to Attorney General Pam Bondi to explain her refusal to drop a corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York.

Sassoon, the acting US attorney for the district, wrote in her resignation letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi that the New York mayor’s attorneys “repeatedly urged what amounted to a quid ...