Danielle Sassoon, the former interim US attorney for the Southern District of New York, levied that accusation in a resignation letter that leaked to the New York Times. When Sassoon stepped down, it kicked off a whole string of resignations at the DOJ.

We will not confess wrongdoing when there was none," they wrote in a joint letter. Ten attorneys have now left the Justice Department over the handling of the case.

For the second time in three months, the Trump administration's handling of Eric Adams' corruption case has led to multiple prosecutorial resignations.