This is Saturday Night Massacre level story being obscured in an avalanche of news (including the Trump Admin basically announcing the USA has gone over to the Dark Side now):
DOJ engaging in a public quid pro quo to drop charges against an indicted public official in exchange for him supporting the Administration’s immigration policies. The SDNY attorneys quit instead of doing so. DOJ official, the former personal criminal lawyer of POTUS, threatens line attorneys in SDNY if one of them doesn’t sign the filing to drop the charges (but won’t do so himself) or risk them all being fired.