"The criminal division chief refused to use DOJ power to compel the bank, citing lack of evidence of a crime after Trump appointees sought an investigation."
"The head of the criminal division in the U.S. attorney’s office in D.C. resigned Tuesday morning after declining to comply with an urgent Trump administration demand to freeze the assets of a multibillion-dollar Biden administration environmental grant initiative, according to the official’s resignation letter and two people familiar with the matter.
Veteran prosecutor Denise Cheung’s resignation came in response to a Justice Department effort to assist President Donald Trump’s head of the Environmental Protection Agency, who said last week that he would try to rescind $20 billion in grants awarded by the Biden administration for climate and clean-energy projects, according to the two people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
Cheung wrote in her resignation letter that while she and the FBI asked the bank handling the disbursements to freeze the assets immediately, she refused a last-minute order from interim U.S. attorney Ed Martin to compel the bank to do so. This demand came after the office of acting deputy attorney general Emil S. Bove requested she open what she considered an unfounded criminal investigation into the matter, according to a resignation letter obtained by The Washington Post."
SEE ALSO:
"Read the resignation letter by Denise Cheung, a veteran D.C. federal prosecutor" (Washington Post)
"Top DC Prosecutor Resigns As EPA Seeks Criminal Probe Of Biden Climate Funding" (The Hill)
"Prosecutor in U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington Abruptly Resigns" (New York Times)
"Top US Prosecutor Quits Over Pressure To Investigate Biden Climate Spending" (Guardian)
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