Published on: Thursday, February 13, 2025
Three senior Justice Department officials, including Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon resigned Thursday, rather than comply with an order from the Deputy Attorney General to drop the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams (article available here).
Sassoon, the Trump administration's recent pick, resigned effective immediately. Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, a Trump appointee, said his office would take over the Adams case and move to dismiss it, though no formal motion to dismiss had been filed yet on Thursday afternoon.