PANews reported on January 22 that according to Bloomberg, US President Trump appointed Danielle Sassoon, who served as a prosecutor in the case of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, as the interim acting federal prosecutor for the Southern District of Manhattan. Sassoon will temporarily replace the Biden-appointed official Damian Williams who resigned earlier until Trump's nominee Jay Clayton, the former chairman of the SEC, is confirmed by the Senate. In addition, Trump has also appointed several federal prosecutors, including acting prosecutors in Brooklyn and Washington, DC.