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The best criminal prosecutor in Washington, DC, the office of the American lawyer, Denise Cheung, resigned Tuesday after refusing a request from her superiors appointed by Trump to open an investigation by the great jury which she considered premature, according to several people familiar with the problem.
The management comes from Emil Bove, the general vice-prosecutor of the department, in Ed Martin, that President Donald Trump appointed to be the permanent lawyer of American DC.
Cheung, a long -standing employee of the DoJ, had been invited to lead an investigation into a financing decision of the environmental protection agency during the Biden administration.
She refused the order and resigned, in part because she thought there was not enough evidence to make this stage at the time, while seeking to protect the lower level prosecutors, Source.
The Trump administration systematically criticized Biden’s expenses in environmental programs. EPA administrator Lee Zeldin said that he had “found” $ 20 billion in the climate law of former President Joe Biden in 2022 in a Citibank account, and wanted to return Money with the American Treasury.
The EPA then announced in a press release that EPA “would work with the United States Ministry of Justice” on the issue. CNN asked for comments from EPA.
The Ministry of Justice refused to comment. Cheung did not respond to a request for CNN comments on Tuesday morning.
Zeldin suggested that the funding had been precipitated to eight non -profit organizations to distribute at the end of the Biden administration through the law on inflation reduction, but a former official of the EPA responsible for The implementation of funding declared to CNN last week that it was not precipitated or implemented harmful.
Cheung sent a wider farewell message from the office on Tuesday morning. She did not publicly indicate her reason for leaving.
The departure of Cheung also comes at a time of change of hiking across the doj, the prosecutors considered to be unworthy of linked summer, and ethical clashes radiant between the nominees handpicked on the trustee of Trump and the long federal prosecutors date.
Bove last week presided over a public row with prosecutors in New York and Washington to reject the charges against the mayor of New York, Eric Adams.
Martin, taking the bar of the United States prosecutor’s office, supported the details of criminal affairs on January 6 that the office brought. He had enlisted Cheung and another career prosecutor at the office to examine how prosecutors accused rioters of January 6 of accusation of obstruction for the crime that the Supreme Court then canceled.
“When I started as ausa, I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution, and I executed this obligation faithfully during my mandate, which extended through numerous administrations,” wrote Cheung in her e-mail of disconnection to her colleagues. “I know that all the ausas of the office continue to honor their oaths on a daily basis, just as I know that you have always taken it with the greatest integrity.”
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