Danielle Sassoon, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, submitted her resignation Thursday, according to letters obtained by ABC News.

The Justice Department’s recent instruction to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams has prompted a wave of resignations from key federal prosecutors on Thursday, including one attorney who said the order “amounted to a quid pro quo.

The top Manhattan federal prosecutor and five other officials quit rather than dismiss charges against the mayor in part of an allegedly corrupt deal.