{"id":261479,"date":"2026-06-10T03:27:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T03:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/261479\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T03:27:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T03:27:51","slug":"manhattan-judge-who-drew-federal-prosecutors-attention-resigns-following-critical-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/261479\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan judge who drew federal prosecutor\u2019s attention resigns following critical report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/sunflowerstatejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/hammer.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hammer-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A city judge in Manhattan who drew the attention of the state&#8217;s top federal prosecutor about remarks she was accused of making about federal immigration agents has resigned.<\/p>\n<p>Municipal Judge Sarah Barr said in an interview on Tuesday that she resigned for her position last Friday, June 5.<\/p>\n<p>She decided to leave three weeks after she met with the assistant city manager and the head of human resources.<\/p>\n<p>Barr said she was placed on paid leave while an officials investigated complaints they received about her, including a U.S. Justice Department investigation into whether she made derisive comments about . . .<\/p>\n<p>SSJ<\/p>\n<p>This content is restricted to subscribers. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/sunflowerstatejournal.com\/register\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to subscribe. Already a subscriber? Click <a href=\"https:\/\/sunflowerstatejournal.com\/sunflower-login\/?redirect=%2Fmanhattan-judge-who-drew-federal-prosecutors-attention-resigns-following-critical-report%2F\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0to login.<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                        Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/sunflowerstatejournal.com\/lawyer-for-state-democrats-rebukes-u-s-senate-candidates-facebook-posts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lawyer for state Democrats rebukes U.S. Senate candidate\u2019s Facebook posts<\/a>            <a href=\"https:\/\/sunflowerstatejournal.com\/author\/brad\/\" aria-label=\"author-photo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Brad Cooper\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fb81a8838ffcafb81da3d86de28cfcf51f8b752a7312e492252329be82b9aace.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo\" height=\"96\" width=\"96\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a>                    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; A city judge in Manhattan who drew the attention of the state&#8217;s top federal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-261479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}