She refused a Trump administration demand to freeze environmental grant assets.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top supervisor in the federal prosecutors’ office in Washington said she was forced to resign following a dispute with her boss over a directive that she scrutinize the awarding of a government contract during the Biden administration, according to a letter reviewed by The Associated Press.

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 requested by her Trump-appointed colleagues.

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 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

Four Democratic senators have asked the U.S. Justice Department's Inspector General to investigate the resignation of a senior federal prosecutor in Washington who was being pressured to launch a criminal probe of a contract awarded under former President Joe Biden's Environmental Protection Agency.

A D.C. prosecutor resigned after refusing to investigate a federal agency’s actions under Biden, citing insufficient evidence.

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 quit after being asked to issue grand jury subpoenas to determine whether “a contract had been unlawfully awarded,