She refused a Trump administration demand to freeze environmental grant assets.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top supervisor in the federal prosecutors’ office in Washington said she was forced to resign following a dispute with her boss over a directive that she scrutinize the awarding of a government contract during the Biden administration, according to a letter reviewed by The Associated Press.

Denise Cheung, the senior criminal prosecutor at the US Attorney's Office in Washington, DC, resigned on Tuesday after refusing to start a grand jury probe that she believed was premature, as requested by her Trump-appointed colleagues.