Sassoon was the scion of a Baghdadi Jewish family which settled in 19th-century Bombay, making its fortunes in opium and cotton. He spent his life flitting between Bombay, London, and Shanghai.

By Michael Rothfeld Danielle R. Sassoon, the interim U.S. attorney for Manhattan who resigned rather than drop the prosecution of Mayor Eric Adams, explained her refusal in a Feb. 12 letter to U.S ...

The acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Danielle Sassoon, resigned rather than make the motion asking Judge Ho to dismiss the charges. Ms. Sassoon, who is 38 and was ...

Most of the attacks are of the caliber of “Danielle Sassoon was hired by Preet Bharara, so we know she’s bad.” Just wait until they find out that Bharara also hired Emil Bove (and every ...

He is now acting deputy attorney general. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Danielle Sassoon can’t be dismissed as some kind of liberal deep-stater. Her résumé suggests anything but ...

In his letter to Danielle Sassoon, the interim Southern District U.S. attorney, Mr. Bove gave two transparently inappropriate reasons: a baseless claim that the prosecution was politicized ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict. The 35-year ...

CBSA found 14 kilos of opium in his luggage You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. After an Ontario real estate agent returning from a trip to ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict. The 35-year-old ...

"If anyone were in my shoes, they would likely do the same." - Displaced and desperate - Myanmar's opium production was previously second only to Afghanistan, where poppy farming flourished ...

There was a time, not that long ago, when—together—Emil Bove, Hagan Scotten, and Danielle Sassoon were considered to be among the brightest stars at the Justice Department’s most prestigious ...