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

The former acting U.S. attorney overseeing New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s corruption case said the mayor’s attorneys pushed ...

Danielle Sassoon, a Republican who was interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced her resignation in an email to her staff after being ordered by the Justice Department to ...

Lawyers in the Justice Department’s public integrity section came to believe that to save their jobs, one of them would have ...

A prosecutor in the Department of Justice volunteered after the fiery resignation, hoping to spare his colleagues ...

On Friday, seven top prosecutors at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) resigned following an order by DOJ leadership to ...

Andrew Lester entered a guilty plea to second-degree assault in a quick 10-minute court hearing Friday. Lester, 85, was accused in the April 2023 shooting of an unarmed Black teenager, 16-year-old ...

Corey Smith now faces only five more years in state prison, though he’s expected to remain in federal prison for at least another 25 years on a separate case. | Opinion ...

Differing interpretations of Attorney General Robert H. Jackson’s classic 1940 speech, “The Federal Prosecutor,” figured in ...