Hagan Scotten, an assistant U.S. attorney, wrote to Emil Bove, acting deputy attorney general, refusing to drop the case ...

Hagan Scotten told Justice Department officials that he would not be party to a political prosecution. He was the latest in a ...

One of the lead prosecutors handling the sweeping public corruption case against Mayor Adams resigned on Friday — in a ...

President Donald Trump 's Department of Justice (DOJ) is grappling with mass resignations following the department's push to ...

Assistant U.S. Attorney Hagan Scotten wrote to Justice Department leaders it would take a “fool” or a “coward” to dismiss the ...

A federal prosecutor assigned to the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams resigned Friday in a blistering ...

Hagan Scotten, the prosecutor leading the federal corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, has resigned.

On Friday, federal prosecutor Hagan Scotten became the seventh official to resign in protest at the Justice Department, which has sought to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric ...

U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is facing turmoil as seven federal prosecutors, including lead prosecutor Hagan Scotten, ...

The Trump team has rarely if ever faced such resistance from within the government, a move that may pave the way for further defiance.

The episode crystallizes Trump’s politicization of usually independent government functions, and in this case some ...

President Donald Trump's drive to shake up the U.S. government drove out a rising star in conservative legal circles: A ...