Menendez, a Democrat who represented New Jersey in the U.S. Senate for nearly two decades, was convicted last July on 16 federal felony counts related to a bribery scheme in a trial held in the U.S.

Sassoon said federal prosecutors planned to charge Adams with destroying evidence and instructing others to do so, which would have added to his case.

A letter from Emil Bove, acting deputy attorney general, accepting the resignation of Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney, over her refusal to drop the case against Mayor Eric Adams.

A Morris County mayor who Donald Trump endorsed in an unsuccessful U.S. Senate bid last year is leaving local office to take a position in the White House.