US EditionTop DC prosecutor resigns as EPA seeks criminal probe of Biden climate funding
- Denise Cheung, a longtime Justice Department official, resigned after interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin ordered her to freeze assets related to a contract, which she believed lacked sufficient basis.
- Cheung stated that she lacked the legal authority to issue such a letter to the bank, contradicting Martin’s demand.
- Cheung's resignation followed her refusal to comply with Martin’s request not to release funds from certain accounts due to a criminal investigation, highlighting ongoing conflicts within the Justice Department.
- Cheung described her resignation as part of a pattern of career officials departing when facing mandates from the Trump administration, stating that she executed her duty 'faithfully during my tenure.
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Top U.S. Prosecutor Resigns After Trump-Appointed Official Orders Investigation Into Biden Climate Funding
Denise Cheung, the top criminal prosecutor with the United States Attorney’s Office in Washington, DC, resigned on Tuesday after she declined to follow an order from a Trump-appointed superior at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to start a grand jury investigation, people with knowledge of the matter said, as CNN reported. Acting U.S. Attorney General Emil Bove initially gave the instruction to Ed Martin — a Donald Trump nominee fo…
DOJ Prosecutor Steps Down After Refusing Criminal Probe Into $20B In Biden Climate Spending
A top prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C, resigned on Tuesday over an order to open a criminal investigation into Biden-era climate-related contracts. Denise Cheung, head of the criminal division in the D.C. office, sent a resignation letter to interim U.S. attorney Ed Martin. In the letter, Cheung said that she decided ...
DOJ Prosecutor Won't Use Project Veritas Fever Dream Sequences To Open Fake Invesigations, Resigns
"Washington DC - Federal Triangle: Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building" by wallyg is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. (Image cropped)Another top-level resignation! The head of the criminal division in the US attorney’s office in DC and a 24-year-veteran, Denise Cheung, resigned Tuesday morning rather than cosign illegal orders that would have required her to lie, as she alleges was demanded of her by the election-denying ham-faced di…
A Top Federal Prosecutor Resigned Over the EPA’s Climate Fund Freeze
Current conditions: Severe storms in South Africa spawned a tornado that damaged hundreds of homes • Snow is falling on parts of Kentucky and Tennessee still recovering from recent deadly floods • It is minus 39 degrees Fahrenheit today in Bismarck, North Dakota, which breaks a daily record set back in 1910.THE TOP FIVE1. Veteran prosecutor resigns over Trump administration’s push to investigate climate grantsDenise Cheung, Washington’s top fede…
Top DC prosecutor resigns amid probe into Biden climate funding
The top criminal prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia resigned after being ordered to investigate Environmental Protection Agency climate funding.Ashleigh Fields reports for The Hill.In short: Denise Cheung resigned after being instructed to investigate funding of eight non-profit organizations in charge of disbursing Inflation Reduction Act moneys to programs aimed at climate change mitigation.Cheung felt the i…
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