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Who is Danielle Sassoon, the US attorney who resigned rather than drop charges against Eric Adams?

NYC Mayor Investigations - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Danielle Sassoon had served just three weeks as interim U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York when she penned a letter to recently confirmed U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi saying she could not follow a directive to drop the office's corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

Sassoon wrote in her letter obtained by The Associated Press that the directive to drop the charges issued by Bove would violate her sworn duty to uphold the law.

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