Danielle Sassoon

Former Interim U.S. Attorney, Southern District NY

  • Group:Federal, U.S. District Attorney

Danielle Sassoon

Former Interim U.S. Attorney, Southern District NY

What: Refused an order to drop the criminal-corruption case against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, and offered her resignation instead.

Links: New Yorker, Resignation letter

Other: “It is a breathtaking and dangerous precedent to reward Adams’s opportunistic and shifting commitments on immigration and other policy matters with dismissal of a criminal indictment.”