Denise Cheung’s departure comes as Trump seeks to elevate the office’s temporary leader, interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin, to ...

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

The top criminal prosecutor in the Washington, DC, US Attorney’s Office, Denise Cheung, resigned Tuesday after declining a ...

The head of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C, has resigned her post, the latest in a ...

Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Denise Cheung has been a household name in Washington’s legal circles for decades. But the veteran federal prosecutor ...

The criminal division chief refused to use DOJ power to compel the bank, citing lack of evidence of a crime after Trump ...

Denise Cheung, who oversaw the office’s criminal division, described how the interim U.S. attorney in Washington, Ed Martin, had asked her to step down after she refused to order a bank to ...

Top D.C. federal prosecutor has resigned, citing Trump administration pressure to pursue unsupported criminal probe and asset ...

Denise Cheung, a senior U.S. prosecutor, resigned after rejecting a Trump-appointed demand to investigate a Biden-era ...

In announcing her resignation, Denise Cheung said a Trump appointee pushed her to launch a criminal probe without cause.