The interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York resigned Thursday after the Justice Department ordered the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams to be dropped.
Danielle R. Sassoon, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, resigned after an order from newly installed Justice Department officials to abandon the case, according to a report by NBC News.
Three days earlier, Acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove ordered federal prosecutors to drop the case against Adams, partly because of how it interfered with Mayor Eric Adams’ stated focus on “illegal immigration and violent crime” in collaboration with the Trump administration.
Sassoon and other prosecutors initially refused to drop the case out of principle, pushing Bove to blast Sassoon and other non-compliant federal prosecutors for their “insubordination.”…
