The acting deputy U.S. attorney general, former Trump personal lawyer Emil Bove, had ordered on Monday that the Adams case be dropped.
He told Sassoon, in a letter accepting her resignation that she was “incapable of fairly and impartially” reviewing the circumstances of the case.
Bove placed case prosecutors on administrative leave and said they and Sassoon would be subject to internal investigations.
In Bove’s letter, also obtained by the AP, he said the Justice Department in Washington would file a motion to drop Adams’ charges and bar “further targeting” of the mayor.
As of Thursday evening, Adams’ case was still active and no new paperwork had been filed.
The department’s public integrity section, which had been asked to take over the case, was also roiled by resignations.
That same day, Sassoon laid out her objections to dropping the case in an eight-page letter to the attorney general. »
