DOJ officials resign after Trump admin demands they kill NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption case

American lawyer for South New York area On Thursday, he resigned, in protest against the order of the Ministry of Justice to drop the charges of corruption against the mayor of New York City Eric Adams.

Daniel Sasson wrote a letter to Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi earlier this week, saying that the matter was from the United States Deputy Prosecutor “was” inconsistent with [her] The ability and its duty to prosecute federal crimes without fear or good. “Adams’s lawyer also accused the search for” Quid Pro Quo “and indicating that” Adams will be in a position to help the administration enforcement priorities only if the indictment is rejected. ”

Sasson is a member of the Federal Assembly and a former writer in the judge of the conservative Supreme Court Antonin Scalia. In her resignation letter, it was obtained before New York Times“It was the greatest honor for me to represent the United States and follow -up as a public prosecutor in the southern province of New York,” she said.

Two officials of the Ministry of Justice in the capital were asked to help kill the case caused by Adams Alleged corruption He also resigned. At the Times, Kevin and John Keller left their positions in the General Integrity Department of the Ministry of Justice.

Bove admitted to dropping out Film accusation regulations He claimed that Adams took “donations from straw” to misuse programs that match the general campaigns and bribes accepted by the Turkish government – “without assessing the strength of evidence or legal theories on which the issue is based.”

Adams made steps of alignment with the Trump administration politically, and the meeting with the Tsar border Tom Human On Thursday and directing the city’s workers not to interfere in ice raids earlier this week, for every local publication City.

Sasson has been the Acting American lawyer for the region since January when the Trump administration chose her to occupy the seat, such as Jay Clayton, Trump’s candidate for the job, for confirmation.