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Manhattan top prosecutor leaves job after standoff with Barr

by Associated Press
| June 20, 2020 4:06 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — An unusual standoff between Attorney General William Barr and Manhattan's top federal prosecutor ended Saturday when the prosecutor agreed to leave his job with an assurance that investigations by the prosecutor's office into the president's allies would not be disturbed.

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