Manhattan US Attorney resigns over 'rushed' DOJ process to drop charges against Eric Adams

[Timber Rattler]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/manhattan-us-attorney-and-top-doj-officials-resign-after-order-to-drop-eric-adams-case/ar-AA1z0kqQ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=8e63086e42914b78bbe94c8f15213372&ei=26

Federal prosecutors were planning to hit New York's scandal-scarred mayor with new charges when the Justice Department ordered them to drop the case, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan said in a letter Thursday as she and other top officials resigned in protest.

Acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon, the Trump administration's recent pick to temporarily lead the office prosecuting Mayor Eric Adams, announced her resignation in an eight-page letter detailing that her office had planned to charge the mayor with destroying evidence and telling others to do so and to lie to the FBI.

But, she said in the letter published by the New York Post, her office was undermined by the Department of Justice after acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove directed her to dismiss the indictment against Adams.

"I remain baffled by the rushed and superficial process by which this decision was reached, in seeming collaboration with Adams’s counsel and without my direct input on the ultimate stated rationales for dismissal," she wrote.

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John Keller, the acting head of the Justice Department's public corruption unit, also resigned over the Adams case, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Kevin Driscoll, a senior official in the department's criminal division, has also resigned, Reuters reported.

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On Monday, Bove ordered Sassoon to drop corruption charges against Adams, a Democrat who has forged ties with Trump, in what former prosecutors called a sign of political interference.

Reuters reported Sassoon refused to comply with the directive to dismiss the case, and Trump's administration then directed Keller's office to do so. Keller resigned rather than comply, Reuters reported.

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[Sighlass]

Anyone else not seeing Eric Adams as much of an asset, he is a liberal that just happens to agree with Trump on one thing. Or am I missing something?

[Timber Rattler]

Seems to me that Trump cut a deal with Adams...if the mayor helped Homan round up and deport illegals in the city then Trump would call off the dogs.

It kinda smells because Adams and his cronies are obviously dirty, and the prosecutor in charge of the case was a Republican who clerked for Scalia.

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The day before, Sassoon appealed to Attorney General Pam Bondi and expressed her alarm at being ordered to drop the case, according to a letter obtained by NBC News. Sassoon wrote to Bondi that she had attended a meeting on Jan. 31, 2025, with Bove, Adams’ attorney, Alex Spiro, and members of her office.

"Adams’s attorneys repeatedly urged what amounted to a quid pro quo, indicating that Adams would be in a position to assist with Department’s enforcement priorities only if the indictment were dismissed," Sassoon wrote. "Mr. Bove admonished a member of my team who took notes during that meeting and directed the collection of those notes at the meeting’s conclusion."

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Sassoon, who took over the office last month, is a well-respected prosecutor with conservative credentials. Best known for successfully prosecuting crypto whiz kid-turned-fraudster Sam Bankman Fried, Sassoon was a member of the Federalist Society and had clerked for the late Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the U.S. Supreme Court’s most influential conservatives.

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