The US Ministry of Justice is asking a judge to throw a corruption case against the NYC mayor

The US Ministry of Justice asked the Court on Friday to reject the corruption against New York Mayor Eric Adams, and a top -notch Washington official intervened after the Federal Prosecutors in Manhattan distracted his requests to give up on the case, and some gave up on protests.

The acting prosecutor’s duties Emil Bove, the second commander of the department and lawyers from the Public Integrity Department and the Criminal Department, filed a paperwork asking for a case. They claim that these have interfered with the appearance of inappropriateness and that they will let him continue to interfere with the mayor’s offer for a re -choice.

The judge still has to approve the request.

The submission came a few hours after Bove convened a call with prosecutors in the public integrity section of the Ministry of Justice – which deals with corruption cases – and gave them an hour to select two people to sign on the rejection proposal, saying that they would they could have been promoted, to the person familiar with this question.

After the prosecutors left Bove, the consensus among the group was that everyone would resign. But the veteran prosecutor came out of concern for the jobs of younger people in the unit, said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the details of a private meeting.

Three dismissals on three pages were borne by Bove’s signature and the names of Edward Sullivan, a higher counselor for the Public Department and Antoinette Bacon, supervisory officers in the Criminal Department of the Department. No one from the Federal Prosecutor in Manhattan, who brought the Adams case, signed the document.

This move followed for five days in the showdown between the leadership of the Ministry of Justice in Washington and his Manhattan office, which has long been proud of his independence because he has taken over the abuse of Wall Street, political corruption and international terrorism.

At least seven prosecutors in Manhattan and Washington abandoned Bove’s Case Stopping Directive, including temporary US lawyer Manhattan Danielle Sassoon and acting head of the Washington Public Integrity Department.

The Ministry of Justice said in its proposal to judge Dale E. Ho that he wanted to dismiss Adam’s accusations with the ability to recharge later. Ho has not yet taken measures at a request from Friday night.

“I imagine the judge will want to investigate what his role is in line with the rules,” said Joshua Naftalis, a former Federal Prosecutor at Manhattan, who is not involved in the Adams case. “I would expect the court either to ask the parties to come to court personally or to bear papers or both.”

Bove said earlier this week that Trump’s permanent, appointed an American lawyer at Manhattan, whom Senate has not yet confirmed, can decide whether the charges of re -examined after the November election. Adams faces democratic primary in June, with several challengers.

His trial was on his way to holding himself in the spring.

Bove concluded that the continuation of the Prosecutor’s Office would interfere with Adam’s ability to manage, presenting “unacceptable threats of public security, national security and related federal initiatives and politics,” the release proposal said. Among other things, it was said that the case was caused by Adams to be denied access to sensitive information needed to protect the city.

Adams declared that he was not guilty in September for charges that he had accepted more than $ 100,000 illegal contributions to the campaign and lavish trips from foreign nationals who wanted to buy his influence while he was president in Brooklyn Borough, who would be mayor.

Although critical in the past, Adams has recently been recently connected with Trump and visited him at his Florida Golf Club last month. The President criticized the case against Adamas and said he was open to the mayor, who was a registered Republican in the 1990s, pardon.

Bove sent a letter to Sassoon to give up the case on Monday. He argued that the mayor was needed in Trump’s immigration abolition and repeated Adam’s claims that the case was retaliating for his criticism for immigration policies of Biden.

Instead of respecting himself, Sassoon resigned on Thursday, together with five senior officials of the Washington Ministry of Justice. The day earlier, she sent a letter to Trump’s new Attorney General, Pam Bondi, seeking to meet and reconsider the directive to give up on the case.

In his letter, Sassoon suggested that he “seems to be investigating the search” about why the case should be dismissed. She noted that in at least one example, the judge rejected such a request as opposed to the public interest. “A rigorous test here would be in accordance with the precedent and practice in these and other districts,” she wrote.

Seven former US lawyers in Manhattan, including James Comey, Geoffreya S. Berman and Mary Jo White issued a statement that praised Sassoon “dedication to the integrity and rule of law.”

In his letter to Bondi, Sassoon accused Adamas’s lawyers of offering what “Quid Pro Quo” meant – his help in immigration in exchange for giving up on the case – when they met with Washington Ministry of Justice last month.

Adam’s lawyer Alex Spiro said on Thursday that the charges of quid pro quo “a total lie.”

“They asked us if the case had an impact on national security and implementation of immigration and we truly answered,” Spiro Ue, a member of the reporters, said.

Adams added on Friday: “I never offered – nor did anyone offer on my behalf – any trade of my powers as your mayor to end my case. Never.”