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The head of the criminal division in Washington, D.C.'s U.S. attorney’s office resigned in protest on Tuesday, after she said she was directed to improperly freeze assets that had been granted during President Joe Biden’s administration, the Washington Post reported.
Denise Cheung said in a letter to U.S. Attorney Ed Martin that she was ordered by the Deputy Attorney General's office to freeze $20 billion in grants for “climate and clean energy projects,” the Washington Post reported.
However, the Washington Post reported that the Justice Department can only freeze assets "when it has evidence suggesting the assets can be traced to a crime." And Cheung did not believe a crime had occurred.
Indeed, newly minted Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin posted on X about wanting to cancel the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund that would give grants to projects to fight climate change.
So it appears that because Zeldin couldn’t just cancel this funding unilaterally, he needed to use improper avenues to freeze it instead.
Cheung is now the latest federal prosecutor to resign in protest from the Trump administration after refusing to carry out a directive viewed as unlawful or unethical.
Everybody be sure to file that asset freeze thing away.
We'll be revisiting it again in a little over 4 years.
All of these prosecutors resigning are going to be great prosecution witnesses.
Denise Cheung said in a letter to U.S. Attorney Ed Martin that she was ordered by the Deputy Attorney General's office to freeze $20 billion in grants for “climate and clean energy projects,” the Washington Post reported.
However, the Washington Post reported that the Justice Department can only freeze assets "when it has evidence suggesting the assets can be traced to a crime." And Cheung did not believe a crime had occurred.
Indeed, newly minted Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin posted on X about wanting to cancel the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund that would give grants to projects to fight climate change.
So it appears that because Zeldin couldn’t just cancel this funding unilaterally, he needed to use improper avenues to freeze it instead.
Cheung is now the latest federal prosecutor to resign in protest from the Trump administration after refusing to carry out a directive viewed as unlawful or unethical.

Yet another DOJ official resigns in protest
The head of the criminal division in Washington, D.C.'s U.S. attorney’s office resigned in protest on Tuesday, after she said she was directed to improperly freeze assets that had been granted ...
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Everybody be sure to file that asset freeze thing away.
We'll be revisiting it again in a little over 4 years.
All of these prosecutors resigning are going to be great prosecution witnesses.