The American prosecutor General Pam Bondi speaks when she announces an action in charge of immigration at her first press conference at the Ministry of Justice in Washington, DC, United States, February 12, 2025.
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THE Ministry of Justice Friday, deposited a Rejection Request the case of criminal corruption against new York Mayor of the city Eric AdamsAfter seven federal prosecutors who protested against The Doj Request to launch the case.
The MJ asked the Judge of the Federal Court of Manhattan, Dale Ho, to reject the case without prejudice. The file noted that Adams had accepted the request.
If Ho grants the request and rejects the indictment to five charges against Adams, the Doj would have the right to refresh the criminal charges against the mayor in the future.
This right has raised concerns that the president Donald Trump will have an important lever effect on Adams to bring the Democratic mayor to cooperate with the policies of the republican president on immigration and other questions.
The acting United States prosecutor, Danielle Sassoon, who resigned Thursday after refusing to follow a Bove order to file the request in dismissal, cited this concern in a letter to the Attorney General Pam Bondi.
“The dismissal without prejudice and with the express option to indicate Adams again in the future creates obvious ethical problems, implicitly threatening future prosecution if Adams cooperation to the application of immigration laws S ‘Amazing unsatisfactory for the department, “wrote Sassoon.
Shortly after the resignation of Sassoon, Adams agreed on Thursday to authorize federal immigration agents in the city’s massive prison complex on the island of Riker.
The request in dismissal of Friday indicates that the acting vice-prosecutor, Emil Bove, concluded that the continuation of Adams prosecution “would interfere with the ability of the accused to govern in New York, which represents unacceptable threats to the public security, national security and related federal policy and federal policies “.
The court file also said that Bove concluded that the dismissal was necessary “due to irregularity and risks of interference” with the primary elections and mayors of New York this year.
“The acting general sub-procurer has reached this conclusion based, among other things, the examination of a website Maintained by a former American lawyer for the South New York district [Damian Williams] and a spur Published by this former American lawyer, “said the file.
The dismissal request was signed by Bove and Antoinette Bacon, head of supervision of the Criminal Division of the Doj in Washington, DC, and Edward Sullivan, principal prosecutor of the Public Integrity section of the Doj.
Earlier Friday, Mouth Promotions promised to management positions for remaining prosecutors in the doj Public integrity section who would accept to sign a rejection in rejection of Adams’ case.
Bove gave prosecutors a period of one hour to provide him with the names of two lawyers who would sign the motion, according to NBC News.
The mayor of New York, Eric Adams, attends a celebration of the prices of commercial enterprises belonging to minorities and women (M / WBE) in Gracie Mansion in New York, United States, February 13, 2025.
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MJ’s chief of staff, Chad Mizelle, said in a statement: “The decision to reject the indictment of Eric Adams is another indication that this Doj will return to his main function to continue the criminals Dangerous, not pursuing hunts with witches with political motivation. “
“The fact that those who charged and continued the case refused to follow a direct command is additional proof of the disorderly and rear motivations of the prosecutors,” said Mizelle. “These people do not have their place at Doj.”
Bove’s video call with the section team came as seventh prosecutor resigned on his controversial order to reject the case.
Friday January 10, 2025
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Four prosecutors who resigned Thursday included the head of the public integrity section John Keller and three other members of his team.
The last prosecutor to arrest, HAGAN SCOTTENIn a letter of blistering to Bove, said: “I expect you to finally find someone enough, or enough coward, to file your request” to reject the Adams affair.
“But that was never going to be me,” wrote Scotten, who had been the main prosecutor Adams case As an American assistant lawyer for the South New York district.
Danielle Sassoon, American assistant lawyer for the South District of New York, on the left, arrived at the court in New York, in the United States, Thursday, March 28, 2024.
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On Thursday, the boss of Scotten, Sassoon, resigned to protest.
In the hours that followed Sassoon left, Keller, the other three prosecutors in the public integrity section, and the head of the Doj’s acting criminal division, Kevin Driscoll, all resigned rather than executing the order of Bove.
Bove, when he was in a private legal practice, represented Trump in his criminal trial Hush Money in New York last year. Trump was found guilty of nearly three dozen accusations of falsification of commercial files in this case, but was sentenced to prison or probation sentence.
Scotten in his letter made fun of the reported justifications for Bove for rejected the Adams affair.
Bove said that the case interfered with Adams’ ability to “cooperate fully with the federal government” on the application of Trump’s immigration policies in New York, and Bove also quoted comments on Adams made by Williams, the former federal prosecutor in Manhattan.
“In short, the first justification for the motion – that the role of Damian Williams in the case has sort of tainted an act of accusation valid by many evidence, and continued under four different American lawyers – is so weak that he is prextual transparently, “wrote Scotten.
“The second justification is worse,” wrote Scotten. “No ordered freedom system can allow the government to use the carrot to reject the accusations, or the threat stick to bring them back again, to encourage an elected official to support his political objectives.”
“There is a tradition in the public resignation service in a last effort to eliminate a serious error,” wrote Scotten.
“Some will see the error that you make here in the light of their generally negative opinions of the new administration,” he wrote. “I do not share these opinions.”
The prosecutor, referring to Trump, wrote: “I can even understand how a managing director whose history is in business and politics could see the dismissal envisaged with usefulness as a good deal, but unpleasant.”
“But any assistant American lawyer knows that our laws and traditions do not allow to use the power of prosecutor to influence other citizens, even less elected,” wrote Scotten.
Scotten is a graduate of the Harvard Law School who was employed for the chief judge of the Supreme Court John Roberts after having served in the American army in Iraq in the special forces. He was also committed to the judge of the Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh when the Curator of Roberts was seated in a lower court.
On Thursday, Bove had placed Scotten on administrative leave with another prosecutor in the Adams case, Derek Wiksrom.
Bove in a letter to Sassoon said he was doing this step after indicating that Scotten and Wiksrom agreed with his decision to refuse to drop the case and do not just comply with the order to reject this affair “.
Bove said that prosecutors would be investigated by the Attorney General Pam Bondi and the DOJ professional responsibility office for their conduct, with Sassoon. Bondi would then determine if Scotten and the prosecutors were to be dismissed, Bove wrote.
