Manhattan prosecutor to resign

Appointed by Joe Biden, the 44-year-old magistrate announced his resignation on Monday, before the arrival of Donald Trump at the White House in January.

The Manhattan district attorney in New York, one of the most sensitive in the United States where rapper P. Diddy and the city’s mayor Eric Adams are indicted, announced his resignation on Monday. This before the arrival at the White House of Donald Trump, who promised to replace him.

“Today is a bittersweet day for me as I announce my resignation from the position of (Federal) Attorney for the Southern District of New York,” he wrote. The latter had marked the history of American justice by becoming the first African-American prosecutor to be appointed to this position in New York:

Trump accused of serving his interests

The president-elect is accused of appointing close associates to the Ministry of Justice to serve his interests. He promised during his campaign to fire special prosecutor Jack Smith, who led the investigation against him for his alleged illicit attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and he appointed his own lawyers to key positions in the Ministry of Justice.

He also announced after his victory over Kamala Harris that he would appoint to the post of Manhattan prosecutor the former boss of the American stock market watchdog (SEC) during his first term, Jay Clayton, who works in a business law firm.

Large companies and sensitive matters

The Manhattan prosecutor’s office may be required to investigate large American companies and sensitive and high-profile cases. At its head, Damian Williams notably led the indictments of the rapper and producer P. Diddy, accused of having taken advantage of his notoriety and his power to sexually exploit dozens of victims, or of the current mayor of New York, Eric Adams, in a corruption case. They were not tried and pleaded not guilty.

Since taking office, former cryptocurrency king Sam Bankman-Fried has also been sentenced to 25 years in prison for one of the worst financial frauds in recent history, while former British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years for sex trafficking of minors on behalf of the deceased American financier Jeffrey Epstein. (ats/afp)

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Following the “chaotic” and “frustrating” end of COP29 in Baku, whose results disappointed, a fifth and final round of negotiations on a global treaty against plastic pollution opened Monday in Busan, South Korea. South.

“This conference is much more than the drafting of an international treaty. It is humanity that is mobilizing in the face of an existential threat. The decisions we make in the next seven days will shape history“, declared Monday the Ecuadorian diplomat who chairs the debates, Luis Vayas Valdivieso.