Acting US attorney in New York and five others quit after being told to drop Eric Adams case

[jerrymahoney]

Three senior Justice Department officials in New York and Washington resigned Thursday instead of complying with orders from the Trump administration to dismiss the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

 

The flurry of resignations in protest represents the sharpest rebuke to date of the President Donald Trump’s team leading the Justice Department, which has spent its opening weeks in office firing prosecutors connected to the cases against Trump and demanding information about the thousands of FBI agents involved in the investigations of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

 

In an eight-page letter, Danielle Sassoon quit her post as acting US attorney for the Southern District of New York instead of dropping the Adams case, saying the New York mayor’s attorneys “repeatedly urged what amounted to a quid pro quo” to help Trump on immigration if the case was dropped.

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/13/politics/danielle-sassoon-eric-adams-us-attorney/index.html

 

NB Ms. Sassoon was former law clerk for Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.

[bannork]

Every day Trump shows his utter moral bankruptcy ( apart from his financial ones).

From the violent insurrectionists of Jan 6th, through the corrupt NY Mayor to the evil and mass murderer, Putin, all can be forgiven and rewarded if they help Trump 

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It's notable that the prosecutor was ordered to request that the case be dismissed without prejudice. What that means is that the charges against Adams could be revived anytime. In other words, it's a way to coerce Adams into cooperating with the Trump administration.

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It's notable that the prosecutor was ordered to request that the case be dismissed without prejudice. What that means is that the charges against Adams could be revived anytime. In other words, it's a way to coerce Adams into cooperating with the Trump administration.

In Sassoon's letter of resignation, she accused Bove of not studying the case before directing her to ask for dismissal without prejudice. In reply, not only did Bove claim he had studied the case closely, but also questioned its legitimacy. In fact he wrote that he was now going to launch an investigation of how the case was arrived at. He claims there was possible malfeasance on the part of the prosecutors. This makes no sense. You don't first propose to ask for a dismissal of a case without prejudice then turn around and say it's a bad case. At least you don't do that if you're a competent lawyer. And Bove is certainly a very competent lawyer. But if your boss is clueless, then this is the position can find yourself in, flypapering yourself with lies.

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Now this is how to give the corrupt Trump administration the finger. Here's an excerpt from the resignation letter of the chief prosecutor in the Adams case. It's about the corrupt use of dismissal without prejudice.

 

"But any assistant U.S.attorney would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial powerto influence other citizens,
much less elected officials, in this way. If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going tobe me."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/seventh-doj-official-resigns-warns-trump-use-charges-leverage-nyc-mayo-rcna192240