3 senior officials give up the order to dismiss the corruption charges against the NYC mayor
Three senior officials of the US Ministry of Justice, including the Best Federal Prosecutor in Manhattan, resigned on Thursday, not that they were in line with the order of rejection of corruption against the Mayor of New York, according to the Memoranda of the Internal Justice Department seen by Reuters and people familiarize this question.
The departures indicate the resistance of the Ministry of Justice’s resistance to the US President Donald Trump to rewind the agency to end what he called a weapon against political opponents. Critics say Trump’s changes are threatened to undergo criminal persecution of political whim.
Manhattan American lawyer Danielle Sassoon, a recent selection of Trump administration who temporarily led the office of Mayor of New York, Eric Adams, resigned on Thursday, according to the Memorandum of Deputy Chief Prosecutor Emil Bove, Trump’s appointment.
Bove was ordered by Sassoon to reject the case on Monday, in what legal experts called the efforts of Trump’s officials to claim control of the prosecution, which has long been proud of politics independence. Adams, Democrat, established ties with Trump, a Republican.
In his memoranda on Thursday, Bove wrote that Sassoon refused to adhere to what he called the discovery of his office that the case against Adams was a “weapon” of the judicial system.
“Your office has no authority to dispute the finding of weapons,” Bove wrote, Trump’s former lawyer for personal criminal defense. “The Ministry of Justice will not tolerate disobedience.”
Bove wrote that the two main trials in the Adams case would be on leave. He also said his office would take over the Adams case and move him to reject him, although the official proposal to rejection has not yet been submitted on Thursday afternoon.
A spokesman for the southern District of New York (SDNY) confirmed to Sassoon’s resignation. It was not immediately clear who would take her place.
According to a person familiar with this issue, after Sassoon refused to adhere to the Directive to reject the case, Trump’s administration sent John Keller, a manager of the head of the Ministry of Justice Corruption Unit.
Keller also resigned on Thursday, two people announced to this question. Kevin Driscoll, a senior department official, also resigned, one of the people said.
An official of the Ministry of Justice confirmed resignation.
New York Mayor and former NYPD official, Eric Adams, has been charged with five federal charges related to allegations of taking illegal campaigns and bribe of foreign nationals in exchange for the service.
Comparisons from the massacre on Saturday night “
Ever since Trump started his second term at the White House on January 20th, the new administration has dismissed more than a dozen prosecutors who have in two cases of criminal charges against Trump and abolished some officials and prosecutors of the FBI who have chased cases against his supporters who are January 6, 2021, broke through US capitol to try to block Congress to confirm the loss of choice.
The US State Attorney Pam Bondi, on the first day at work last week, issued a directive stating that the lawyers of the Ministry of Justice who rejected in court or sign the submissions were disciplined and possibly discharged.
Resignations have been encouraged by comparisons from legal experts with “Massacre on Saturday night” 1973When the senior officials of the Ministry of Justice resigned after rejecting the order of then President Richard Nixon to release a special advisor who explored the breakthrough of Republican operatives of 1972 at the Washington Washington Democratic headquarters.
Juliet Sorensen, a former federal prosecutor who teaches at the Loyol University of Chicago at the University of Loyol, also said that they resigned on Trump’s decision in his first term that he had dismissed FBI director James Comey to stop the office to investigate his presidential campaign in 2016. .
“In both these historical cases, as with today’s events, you have the executive director of the United States, which brings extreme political pressure based on their high duties against the non -political staff of the Ministry of Justice,” Sorensen said.
Half a dozen former SDNY prosecutors told Reuters this week that the command of Bove, the SDNY prosecutor himself, asked the questions whether the office could remain independent of political pressure during Trump’s second term.
Last September, the predecessor of Sassoon Damian Williams – appointed Biden – accused Adamas of accepting myth of Turkish officials.
Adams said he was not guilty and claimed that the charges had been filed as retribution for his criticism of Biden’s immigration policy. Trump, whose two federal cases were discharged after winning the choice, but who was convicted of separate accusations at the state level, expressed sympathy for Adam. In an interview with journalists at an oval office on Thursday, Trump said he did not ask that the Ministry of Justice rejected the case against Adams.
