Denise Cheung’s departure comes as Trump seeks to elevate the office’s temporary leader, interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin, to the post permanently.

The resignation of the prosecutor, Denise Cheung, comes at a turbulent moment at the Justice Department, as President Trump and his appointees seek to exert control over law enforcement actions.

The head of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C, has resigned her post, the latest in a string of Justice Department officials to leave.

WASHINGTON — A top prosecutor in DC’s US attorney’s office resigned Tuesday after refusing to help launch an investigation into a Biden administration environmental contract. Denise Cheung ...

Legal Issues High-ranking D.C. federal prosecutor resigns over order to freeze EPA funds The criminal division chief refused to use DOJ power to compel the bank, citing lack of evidence of a crime ...

Denise Cheung, a longtime Justice Department official who led the office’s criminal division, wrote in a resignation letter that interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin ordered her to seek a freeze on ...

Local Crime & Public Safety Read the resignation letter by Denise Cheung, a veteran D.C. federal prosecutor She refused a Trump administration demand to freeze environmental grant assets.

The top criminal prosecutor in the Washington, DC, US Attorney’s Office, Denise Cheung, resigned Tuesday after declining a request from her Trump-appointed superiors to open a grand jury ...

The top criminal prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, Denise Cheung, resigned Tuesday, following a reported directive to launch an investigation into ...

Denise Cheung, the senior criminal prosecutor at the US Attorney's Office in Washington, DC, resigned on Tuesday after refusing to start a grand jury probe that she believed was premature, as ...

Denise Cheung's sudden exit from the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office follows DOJ changes and President Donald Trump's nomination of Ed Martin ...