El0n's lawyer wends his way to Eric Adams
no riposte from trumpies?
in gross number of resignations, this beats the Saturday Night Massacre
the stain of criminality was cast on the DOJ by Trumpy lawyers
not Trumpy enough maybe
And It had to be a corrupt black criminal that feeds in right into the rhetoric ��
The Black man swears he's innocent. That's good enough for me.
He swears he's innocent. That's good enough for me.
Adams says he's innocent of all charges. And that his city is way past full of illegals. That's good enough for me.
https://nypost.com/2025/02/13/us-new...etter-reveals/The Manhattan feds’ proposed new expanded indictment “would add an obstruction conspiracy count based on evidence that Adams destroyed and instructed others to destroy evidence and provide false information to the FBI,” reads the stunning letter, sent by Sassoon Wednesday to US Attorney General Pam Bondi.
“I understand my duty as a prosecutor to mean enforcing the law impartially, and that includes prosecuting a validly returned indictment regardless whether its dismissal would be politically advantageous, to the defendant or to those who appointed me.”
AUSA Hagen Scotten resigns, tartly
https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphic...9df80-full.pdfBYEMAIL Re: UnitedStatesv.EricAdams,24Cr.556(DEH)
Mr. Bove,
I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S. Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General.
In short, the first justification for the motion—that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse. No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives.
There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S.attorney would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power to 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 to be me.
Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York.
Yours truly,
Hagan Scotten
Assistant United States Attorney Southern District of New York
Last edited by Winehole23; 02-14-2025 at 11:06 AM.
Where are our resident anti-corruption crusaders?
Surely the have just overlooked this thread the past couple weeks, right?
uncorroborated from Barb McQuade
looks like AG Bondi is doubling down on using main justice to corruptly influence Adams
DOJ leadership has put all Public Integrity Section lawyers into a room with 1 hour to decide who will dismiss Adams indictment or else all will be fired. Sending them strength to stand by their oath, which is to support the Cons ution, not the president’s political agenda
Raskin is the pops whose son blew his own head off at the house.
I remember him.
maybe a lawyer can explain what's happening here
after Bove reportedly locked the DOJ's Public Integrity Section in a room and threatened them collectively -- it is also reported that The Public Integrity Section discussed resigning en masse-- this is what happened:
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/14/...e-prosecutors/Update: Incredibly, that report that a prosecutor had agreed to file the dismissal turned out to not be accurate. Many hours later, after no such filing was actually made a few very bizarre things happened. First, Emil Bove filed a notice of appearance in the case. That is… not normal.
Next, all of the remaining line prosecutors withdrew from the case.
Finally, the “nolle prosequi” (a notice saying “we no longer want to prosecute”) was filed. But even the way it was filed is weird and somewhat unprecedented. Two lawyers, including Ed Sullivan (who was mentioned above as effectively agreeing to be the fool to protect his coworkers) signed most of the do ent, but they did not sign the final statement. Instead, there was a further “order” from the DOJ, signed by Bove alone, telling the Court to effectively dismiss the case:
Even the language here is bizarre. The prosecutors don’t get to “direct” the Court to do anything. That’s likely why Bacon and Sullivan signed the part about “respectfully requests” that the Court issue an order. But Bove leaps in, acting like he gets to order around the judge, and separately signs that part.
Kinda shocking.
What will be interesting now, is to see what Judge David Ho does.
Last edited by Winehole23; 02-14-2025 at 09:02 PM.
there's a lot of daylight between DOJ leadership and rank and file attorneys
operational silence on this topic
none of the usual trumpy bloviators have dropped in on Bove's corrupt political deal with Adams
David Ho or Dale Ho?
Talking to yourself again?
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