[7] Bove worked as an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell before becoming an assistant US Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he served as the co-chief of the national security and international narcotics unit.
[8][9] While there, he led the unit's prosecutions of Nicolás Maduro,[10] Cesar Sayoc,[11] Tony Hernández,[12] and Fabio Lobo.
[17] After winning the 2024 United States presidential election, Trump announced that he would nominate Bove to serve as principal associate deputy attorney general.
[23] On February 5, 2025, Bove distributed a memo to the FBI workforce accusing bureau leadership of "insubordination" for refusing to identify Washington, D.C.-based agents who had overseen the January 6 investigation.
When leadership declined to identify what Bove called the "core team", he expanded his directive to include all agents and employees who had participated in January 6-related matters.
[26] In response, FBI employees filed two lawsuits on February 4 seeking to block the collection and potential dissemination of investigators' names.
[27][29][30] On February 13, the interim U.S. attorney in Manhattan, Danielle Sassoon, and five other Justice Department prosecutors opted to resign instead of dropping the case against Adams.