Emil Bove may not be a household name in the United States, but he was a familiar face for anyone who followed President Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York City last year. Bove served as co-counsel on Trump’s defense and was a regular fixture by the president’s side during the trial.

Judge Dale Ho, a Biden appointee, noted in the New York mayor’s case that the government’s prosecutorial discretion is broad but also that the judiciary has an independent role to play.

Danielle Sassoon, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, resigned Thursday after Bove directed New York prosecutors to drop the case against Mayor Adams.