Chuck Darwin<p>The top criminal prosecutor in the Washington, DC, <br>US Attorney’s Office, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Denise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Denise</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cheung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cheung</span></a>, <br>resigned Tuesday after declining a request from her Trump-appointed superiors <br>to open a grand jury investigation that she viewed as premature</p><p>The direction originated from <a href="https://c.im/tags/Emil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Emil</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bove</span></a>, the department’s acting deputy attorney general, <br>to <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ed</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Martin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Martin</span></a>, whom Trump has nominated as permanent DC US Attorney.</p><p>🔥Cheung, a long-time DOJ employee, had been asked to shepherd an investigation into an Environmental Protection Agency funding decision during the Biden administration and then use DOJ’s powers to freeze that funding.<br><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/18/politics/justice-department-dc-criminal-division/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">edition.cnn.com/2025/02/18/pol</span><span class="invisible">itics/justice-department-dc-criminal-division/index.html</span></a></p>