Senior US prosecutor resigns, citing demand to probe Biden-era contract

A top prosecutor in DC’s US attorney’s office resigned Tuesday after refusing to help launch an investigation into a Biden administration environmental contract.

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.

Cheung wrote that she believed there was not “sufficient evidence … including sufficient evidence to tell the bank that there is probable cause to seize the particular accounts identified.”

“I was told that there was time sensitivity and action had to be taken that day because there was concern that contract awardees could continue to draw down on accounts handled by the bank handling the disbursements,” she wrote to acting DC US attorney Ed Martin.

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