The top criminal prosecutor in the Washington, DC, US Attorney’s Office, Denise Cheung, resigned Tuesday after declining a request from her Trump-appointed superiors to open a grand jury investigation that she viewed as premature, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
Also being fired puts all your benefits at risk. Might as well resign and keep your pension then be fired “for cause” and potentially lose it.
What benefits?
I guess e.g. pension entitlements.