Read: Danielle Sassoon letter to Pam Bondi on Eric Adams case

Danielle Sassoon, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, resigned from her post after the Justice Department (DOJ) directed her to drop charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D). 

A spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office confirmed Sassoon stepped down from her post Thursday afternoon. 

The DOJ told Sassoon that the charges against Adams should be dropped, arguing the case “improperly interfered” with Adams’s reelection campaign and restricted his ability to address illegal immigration and violent crime. 

In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Sassoon wrote that Adams’s attorneys “repeatedly urged what amounted to a quid pro quo.”

Read Sassoon’s letter, obtained by NewsNation, here: