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The main federal prosecutor in Manhattan, one of the most powerful personalities of the American police, has left a prescription from the administration of Donald Trump to abandon the continuation of the corruption of the mayor of New York, Eric Adams.
Danielle Sassoon, a veteran prosecutor who took over as an American lawyer for the New York South District In December, as an actor, resigned, said a person familiar with the issue.
Trump’s new management at the Ministry of Justice had ordered the Manhattan office to end Adams, which was billed last year With accepting illegal contributions to the foreign campaign and making official favors on behalf of the Turkish government.
The Ministry of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
The order of Manhattan’s outpost to abandon the case has removed one of the high levels of a office known for its independence, which manages some of the most complex terrorism, financial and public crime corruption case in the country.
Sassoon climbed the levels over nine years in the Manhattan American prosecutor’s office, which is part of a team that obtained the conviction and a 25 -year prison sentence from the FTX founder, Sam Bankman, was accused of theft Billions of assets to customers of the cryptocurrency stock market.
“As a switchboard, Danielle has indeed refused to follow the order,” said Joshua Naftalis, a former transfer prosecutor in the office of the American prosecutor in Manhattan. “And she sent a message that she defended the independence of the South New York district of the main justice.”
An Adams lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comments. The mayor had previously declared: “I am the rules of the campaign and I am following the law.”
Jay Clayton, who led the American Securities and Exchange commission during the first Trump administration, was appointed to lead the Manhattan prosecutor’s office but was not confirmed by the US Senate.
