The US Department of Justice on Friday asked a court to dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a top Washington official on Friday, intervening his demands to release the case, intervening the Effr Federal Prosecutors in Manhattan in Manhattan. The Saterter Prozet reprimanded.
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bowe, second-in-command of the department, and lawyers of the Public Integrity Section and Criminal Division filed paperwork, asking to abolish the case. They argue that this was what happened to the appearance of inconsistency and continuing it would interfere with the mayor’s reunion bid.
A judge should still approve the request.
After a call was called with the prosecutors in the Public integrity section of the Department of Justice, the filing can file after hours – which handles corruption cases – and two people gave two people to choose two people to choose two people. , Which was asked to dismiss those people. For a person familiar with the case.
After the prosecutors called with Bov, what is the consensus between the group that they will all resign. But an experienced prosecutor stepped out of anxiety for young people’s jobs in the unit, said the person who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the details of the private meeting.
The signature of the three-page dismissal Motion Bowe and the names of Edward Sulivan, Senior litigation lawyer of the Public Integrity Section, and a supervisory officer Antonate Bacon in the Criminal Division of the department. Any of the Federal Prosecutor’s office in Manhattan, who brought the Adams case signed the document.
The move came for five days under the leadership of a Shodown Betty Justice Department at Washington and his Manhattan office, which has proud of his freedom for a long time with the malfunction of Wall Street, political corruption and international terrorism. At least seven prosecutors in Manhattan and Washington left instead of completing Bowe’s instructions to stop the case, including the interim Manhattan American Attorney Daniel Sasoon and the acting head of the public integrity section in Washington.
The Department of Justice Dell E. In his proposal to judge Ho, he said that he was later trying to dismiss the allegations of Adams with the option to refine him. Ho was to work at request till Friday evening.
“I think the judges want to find out what his role is under the rules,” said former federal prosecutor of Manhattan. “I hope that the court will either expect parties to file a person in court or papers, or both.”
Bowe said earlier this week that the permanent, manhattan American attorney of US President Donald Trump has been appointed, which has not yet been confirmed by the Senate, can decide that refining the allegations in the November election Is or not.
Adams faced a Democratic primary in June, in which several challenges were lined up. Bov said that the prosecution continued the prosecution with the capacity of the Adams, “the dismissal proposal said” public safety, national security and unacceptable threat to the concerned federal immigration initiative and policies.
Among other things, it said, due to this case, Adams was denied access to the necessary sensitive information to help the safety of the city.
Adams did not blame for allegations in September that he accepted more than $ 100,000 in illegal campaign contribution and looked at the grand travel allowances from foreign national to buy his influence, while Brooklyn Boro is campaigning to be the President of the President. Were. Although it is important in the past, Adams has recently made a relationship with Trump several times and went to meet him at his Florida Golf Club last month.
The President has criticized the case against Adams and said that he was open to the mayor, which was a registered Republican in the 1990s, a regret.
Bov sent a memo on Monday, directed a Republican to quit the case. He argued that Trump’s immigration crack required the mayor and echoed the claims of Adams that the case was vengerated for his criticism of Biden administration immigration policies.
Instead of complying, Sasoon resigned on Thursday, along with five high -ranked justice department officials in Washington. A day earlier, he sent a letter to Trump’s new Attorney General, Palm Bandy, to ask him to meet and reconsider on the instructions to leave the case.
Susoon in his letter suggested that the case should be dismissed as “a search is likely to be inquired”.
“A rigorous investigation here will suit the example and practice in this and other districts,” she wrote.
James Comi, Jeffri S. Seven former Manhattan American Attorney, including Burman and Mary Joe White, issued a statement praising Sasoon’s “commitment to integrity and rule of law”.
On Friday, Manhattan, an assistant American Attorney, Hagan Scotten, who worked for Sassoon and played a leading role in the case of adams, became the seventh prosecutor to resign – and exploded Bov in the process. Scotten wrote to Bov in an resignation letter that it would take a “fool” or “coward” to fulfill his demand to quit allegations, “but it was never going to happen to me.” He said that Bowe had “compromised” with Sasoon’s decision.
Scotten and other adams case prosecutors were suspended on Thursday with salary by Bowe, who started investigating the prosecutors that he said Wood Derma does he work.
Scotten is an army veteran who earned two bronze medals serving as a special force troupe commander in Iraq. Hey graduated from Harvard Law School on top of his class in 2010 and a clerk for Chief Justice John Roberts.
In his letter to Bondi, Sasoon accused Adams’ lawyers that he offers the amount of “Kwid Pro Quo” – help him on immigration in exchange for leaving the case – when he helped the officials of the Department of Justice in Washington last month Went together. Adams’ lawyer Alex Spiro said on Thursday that a Kwid Pro Quo’s charge was a “total”.
Spiro told reporters in an email, “We were asked if the matter had an impact on national security and immigration enforcement and we really responded to it.”
On Friday, Adams said: “I never offered – nor nobody offered on me – my authority as any business of your authority as your mayor to end my case. Never never .
Scotten in his letter wrote to the items of the verdict, wrote: “An order ordered liberty can not allow the government to use carrots to dismiss the allegations, or threaten to bring a rod, or threaten to bring it away, To motivate an elected officer to support his policy objectives. “
The prosecutor, who had appeared in the court for various hearing in the case, said he was following a tradition in the public service to resign in an attempt for a serious mistake, “in business and politics With a background, “maybe as a good, as well as a good, if you do a good, if any prosecutor” Wood knows that our laws and traditions are like this other Citizens do not allow prosecution to use power to influence very few elected officers. “
