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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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…
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