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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/nyregion/danielle-sassoon-quit-eric-adams.html

Order to Drop Adams Case Prompts Resignations in New York and Washington

The interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and two officials with the federal public integrity unit all quit after the Justice Department ordered the charges against Mayor Eric Adams to be dropped.

Manhattanโ€™s U.S. attorney on Thursday resigned just days after she was ordered to drop the corruption case against New York Cityโ€™s mayor, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.

Then, when Justice Department officials sought to transfer the case to the public integrity section in Washington, which oversees corruption cases, the two men who led that unit also resigned, according to five people with knowledge of the matter. The resignations represent the most high-profile public resistance so far to President Trumpโ€™s tightening control over the department.

The resignations of the U.S. attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, and the officials who oversee the Justice Departmentโ€™s Public Integrity Section, Kevin O. Driscoll and John Keller, came in rapid succession on Thursday. Days earlier, the acting No. 2 official at the Justice Department had ordered Manhattan prosecutors to drop the corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams.

The agencyโ€™s justification for dropping the case was explicitly political, and the official, Emil Bove III, made a point of saying that Washington officials had not evaluated the strength of the evidence or the legal theory behind the case.