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

The resignation of the prosecutor, Denise Cheung, comes at a turbulent moment at the Justice Department, as President Trump and his appointees seek to exert control over law enforcement actions.

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 string of Justice Department officials to leave.

Denise Cheung, a longtime Justice Department official who led the office’s criminal division, wrote in a resignation letter that interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin ordered her to seek a freeze on ...

Veteran prosecutor Denise Cheung’s resignation came in response to a Justice Department effort to assist President Donald Trump’s head of the Environmental Protection Agency, who said last ...

Denise Cheung quit after being asked to issue grand jury subpoenas to determine whether “a contract had been unlawfully awarded,” she wrote in her resignation letter.

Local Crime & Public Safety Read the resignation letter by Denise Cheung, a veteran D.C. federal prosecutor. 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 request from her Trump-appointed superiors to open a grand jury ...

Denise Cheung, the senior criminal prosecutor at the US Attorney's Office in Washington, DC, resigned on Tuesday after ...

The sudden departure of Justice Department veteran Denise Cheung comes a day after President Donald Trump announced his nominee to lead the prosecutor’s office, Ed Martin, who has supported ...

Denise Cheung, the head of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, said in a letter that Trump administration officials, seeking to prevent the money from being spent ...

Denise Cheung's sudden exit from the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office follows DOJ changes and President Donald Trump's nomination of Ed Martin. Skip to content. NOWCAST KCCI News at 10pm Weeknights.