Something is corrupt in the Ministry of Justice.
Three representatives of the federal prosecutors told the supervisors that they preferred to resign from recognizing the error because of their refusal to drop the issue of corruption against the mayor of New York City Eric Adams. Celia F. Cohen, Andrew Rourbach, Derek Wixstrom in an email: “We will not admit the mistake as there was nothing.” It was obtained by New York Times. The three prosecutors were placed on an administrative leave this year after the order of the Ministry of Justice officials to drop the case against Adams.
The three prosecutors worked in the departments of democracy and the republic and played their role in enhancing the priorities of the executive branches regardless of ideology, as they wrote in the email. But the Trump administration has destroyed the administration with an unprecedented degree. “Now, the administration decided that obedience replaces everything else, which requires us to give up our legal and moral obligations in favor of trends from Washington,” I read the email.
The e -mail of resignation is the latest episode in a drama that has been played in the Ministry of Justice since the beginning of the second period of Trump. The problem started in February, when the newly installed Ministry of Justice officials ordered the prosecutors to drop the issue of federal corruption against the mayor of New York City, Eric Adams. A group of government lawyers issued their resignations, which prompted inevitable comparisons to Saturday night massacre: The 1973 scandal that designed the department after resigned from senior officials in protest against the launch of the then President Richard Nixon to the Prosecutor who leads the Watergate investigation.
The drama of the Ministry of Justice, which followed in a series of continuous challenges for the rule of law, is proportional to President Donald Trump. In some respects, it is part of local policy, but it is also a kind of flagrant credit that highlights all kinds of places, including the technology industry.
The efforts of the Ministry of Justice to protect Adams as a vow to a multi -side assault of the Trump administration on the rule of law
When the patronage lens was seen, it seems to be different actions such as X’s A $ 10 million settlement with TrumpThe relationship of Mark Zuckerberg and Trump is improved yet Meta changed moderation policiesAnd Trump’s decision Stave off the Tiktok ban Obviously, you have a shared thread – one easily leads to something like an apparently direct Doj exchange. The efforts of the Ministry of Justice to protect Adams were a harbinger of the attack on the Trump administration on the rule of law.
Public Prosecutors Adams accuse Last September, on charges of fraud, bribery and seeking donations from foreign citizens. Shortly after Trump’s oath, Acting Deputy Prosecutor Emile Bouv ordered the prosecutor to move to reject the case. (In a memorandum asking the case to reject it, Bove wrote that the case “restricts mayor Adams’s ability to devote attention and full resources to the crime of illegal violence.”
After the start Approval of the cancellation of the trial until mid -March An external lawyer appointed for advice on the following steps, Judge Del is Refuse Against Adams in early April. But in his matter, Wabous is the Trump administration. He wrote: “Everything here slapped a deal: He rejected the indictment in exchange for the concessions of the immigration policy.” However, the court “cannot force the Ministry of Justice to prosecute the defendant.”
He rejected the case by prejudice, which means that Adams cannot experience the same charges again. Even for the most honest Adams, the permanent escape of the mayor of these corruption fees may be better than the alternative. The Ministry of Justice asked the court to reject the charges of Adams without The bias, which would have allowed it to be reopened at any time – which critics referred to will work as a crane to ensure Adams’s compliance with Trump’s immigration policies.
In fact, the New York mayor’s cooperation can help wandering in immigration and customs (ICE) City Reserve LawWhich, since 2014, has limited the degree to which the New York Police Administration can cooperate with ICE. The biggest threat to Adams’s position as a mayor – as well as his personality personally – was the claim against him because of the alleged bribery.
But for the Trump administration to give up these charges so that Adams can incite collective deportation policies in violating the city’s haven policy, it seems horrific like a dream. In fact, public prosecutors who deal with the Adams case described this as a clear example of Quid Pro Quo.
Daniel Sasson, a former US interim lawyer for the southern region of New York, imposed the accusation in a Resignation message That leaked to New York Times. When Sasson stepped down, a whole series of resignations began in the Ministry of Justice.
These lawyers’ resignations are not exactly partisan. Some of the prosecutors who recently left the department have good provinces. “Some will look at the mistake you make here in light of their negative views in general of the new administration,” Hagan Scotten, one of the prosecutors who have been given since then He wrote in his resignation letter To Bove. “I do not share these opinions.” Scotten, former writer of John Roberts and Judge Brett Cavano.
Sasson, who was appointed to this position by Trump in January, is a member of the Federal Assembly who had previously grown up for Judge Antonin Skalia
Meanwhile, Sasson, who was appointed to the position by Trump in January, is a member of the federal society who had previously grown up to Judge Antonin Skalia. It is, in other words, a governorate dyed in wool. After receiving a BONF note, Sasson Written by Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi She is asked to reconsider the dropping of the Adams case. Her message was to refute points from the logical basis for Bouf to reject the case. Sasson wrote: “It is a precedent for breathtaking and dangerous to reward Adams’s opportunistic and changing obligations on immigration and other political issues with the refusal of a criminal indictment,” Sasson wrote. “The court will not find that such an inappropriate exchange is compatible with the public interest.”
Sasson recounted a recent meeting with the Bove and Adams Legal team, claiming that the mayor’s lawyer said he would be able to help Trump in the priorities of enforcement of immigration if the case against him was rejected. According to Sasson, Bouv “Warning” is a member of her employees to write down notes during the meeting and someone was their sources after the truth. Looking at these details, Sasson said that she would only choose to resign unless the public prosecutor does not. In the end, Bove accepted Sasson’s resignation with A message from his eight pagesHe accused it mainly of rebellion. Three other lawyers And according to what was resigned on the same day.
Scoten, chief public prosecutor in the case, resigned a few days later. “I expect you to find a sufficient person from a fool, or enough cowardly, to present your movement,” Skutten wrote in his resignation letter to Bouv. “But I was never.”
On that morning, Bove transferred cases to the General Integrity Department of the Ministry of Justice, and told lawyers there that he needs two people to sign a proposal asked the court to reject the case against Adams – and that anyone was not willing to do so is the risk of their work – According to a report from the Washington Post. Lawyers initially agreed to resign in protest, as two people said to be aware of the meeting mail. To avoid the mass resignation, Edward Sullivan, the Public Prosecutor of Corruption, who is close to retirement, offered to put his name on the proposal so that his colleagues have time to find work elsewhere. Sullivan presented Separation A few hours later.
While this drama played behind the scenes, Adams was boasting of his cooperation with the Trump administration
While this drama played behind the scenes, Adams was proud of his cooperation with the Trump administration. “Let’s be clear – I am not standing on the way. I am cooperating against many others who do not want to cooperate,” Adams said during February. Appearance Fox & FriendsBesides “Tsar Borders” Tom Human. “If it does not come, I will return to New York City, and we will not sit on the sofa.” “I will be awake, saying,” Where is hell is the agreement that we have reached? ” AnnouncedDoes Ice agents be given access to Rikeers Island, the famous New York City Prison. ICE closed its offices in the prison complex in 2015, and since then, NYPD has honored the “Ice” requests only – according to which it maintains people in local prisons so that the ice can capture it – which was accompanied by a memorandum signed by a federal judge.
Instead of supporting Quid Pro Quo’s criticism, Fox & Friends The appearance led to more accusations for a reduction. Atlantic Ocean Description of the interview As a “video of hostages”, while a member of Congress And invite her “Explicit blackmail.” in A later interview On CNN, Human has called “ridiculous” Quay PRO QUO allegations. Meanwhile, Adams described himself as a victim of a distortion campaign. “People are dancing on my grave,” it is Say to the homosexuals In the Queens Church on February 16 before comparing it with Lazarus, the biblical character resumed by Jesus four days after his death.
The rescuers Adams are more than the earth than the divine. Alina Habba, Trump’s leading lawyer, Defend Against accusations that the Trump administration is “political”. “This man was prosecuted because he was the city’s anti -recovery policies,” Haba said during February. Fox & Friends An interview, echoing Adams’s claim and his lawyer repeatedly in the months of his accusation.
Adams was accused Last September. In January, federalism Representatives of the prosecution said The FBI discovered an “additional criminal behavior”, and the Sasson program, the Ministry of Justice was preparing to accuse him of destroying the evidence, ordered others to do so, and providing wrong information to the FBI. (After the FBI issued a memorandum of inspection of Adams devices in November 2023, the investigators told that he forgot the password for his personal device; starting last November, the FBI is still able to do so Adams phone stormingAccording to the movement of Scotten at the time. It is not clear whether this is the wrong information that Sasson was referring to).
Adams claimed that the prosecution had political motives, accusing the administration of former President Joe Biden of targeting him because of his opposition to Biden’s immigration policies. (His lawyers also claimed that Sasson’s resignation letter leaked was the misconduct of the Public Prosecution.) Personally At the bus station, the port. But with the passage of months and more immigrants arrived in the city, Adams grew increasingly for Biden’s border policies, at one point Claim The flow “will destroy New York City”. Adams has taken a more severe position on immigration after Trump’s victory, indicating that any migrants accused of crimes do not have rights under the constitution. When the mayor He announced his passion for working with Trump Regarding the enforcement of immigration, some political activists began to ask whether Adams hoped to be pardoned by the next president.
It turned out that the pardon was not necessary after all. Instead of pursuing corrupt public officials, the Trump Ministry of Justice is divided against its employees.
