The DOJ seeks to withdraw positions of corruption against the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, in the midst of resignations

New York (AP) – The Department of Justice formally requested a court on Friday to dismiss corruption charges against the mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, an expected movement after that was fiercely opposite by federal prosecutors in Manhattan who presented the case.

The Attorney General’s Attorney General Emil Bove, and the lawyers of the Public Integrity Section of the Department and the Criminal Division in Washington, presented documents that seek to finish the case. A judge still has to sign the request.

The formal movement to end the prosecution occurred after days of agitation in the Department of Justice. At least seven prosecutors in New York and Washington resigned instead of carrying out a directive to stop the case.

Among the people who left were the interim prosecutor of the United States in Manhattan and a veteran prosecutor who worked in the Adams case, together with the interim chief of the public integrity section.

The three -page motion of the Department of Justice sought to dismiss the case without prejudice, which means that the charges could be revived in the future.

An assistant prosecutor of the United States involved in the prosecution of the mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, became at least the seventh person to renounce the Department of Justice in a confrontation about the future of the corruption case, telling him the Second Friday of the department that would be needed on Friday. “Silly” or a “cowardly” to meet your demand to withdraw the charges.

The prosecutor Hagan Scotten became the last victim in an epic confrontation between the leadership of the Department of Justice in Washington and his office in New York, which for a long time has been proud of its independence.

Secto, together with other prosecutors in the case against Adams, was suspended with salary on Thursday by the United States attached attorney, Emil Bove, who launched an investigation of prosecutors who, according to him, would determine if they maintained their work.

Bove, who had represented Donald Trump against criminal charges before being re -elected as president in November, ordered Danielle Sassoon, a Republican and the interim prosecutor of the United States in New York, to withdraw the charges against Adams.

Instead, he resigned on Thursday, along with five officials from the high -ranking department of justice in Washington, one day after he sent a letter to Trump’s new attorney general, Pam Bondi.

In response to his resignation, Bove wrote a scathing and scolding letter.

Bove conferred to prosecutors in the Department’s Public Integrity Section on Friday and told them to decide among them who should sign a motion to dismiss the Adams case. After they were told that their work were at risk if no one took a step forward, one agreed to do so, according to an informed person about the discussions they insisted on the anonymity to talk about a private meeting.

Bondi told Fox News that the motion would appear on Friday, indicating that officials had found someone doing it. A judge would still have to sign the matter.

The Bondi Cabinet Chief, Chad Mizelle, described the decision of the department to abandon the case “another indication that this Department of Justice will return to its main function of prosecuting dangerous criminals, not persecuting politically motivated witch hunts.”

“The fact that those who accused and processed the case refused to follow a direct command is one more evidence of the messy and hidden reasons for prosecutors,” Mizelle said in a statement sent by email. “Such individuals do not take place in the Department of Justice.”

Scotten is an army veteran who obtained two bronze medals that serve in Iraq as a commander of Special Forces troops. He graduated from Harvard’s Law Faculty at the top of his class in 2010 and was used for the president of the Supreme Court John Roberts.

In a letter of renunciation of Bove, Scotten said he “totally agreed” with Sassoon’s refusal to see foreign citizens seeking to buy their influence while he was the president of Brooklyn County, campaigns to be mayor.

Among the reasons to try to have fallen the charges, Bove said that the mayor was necessary in the efforts to apply the Trump administration immigration and to reduce violent crime. He also said that the charges came too close to the mayor’s contest and could be reinstated after the elections.

In his letter, Sassoon accused Adams’ lawyers of offering what was equivalent to a “Quid Pro quo” about immigration when they met with officials of the Department of Justice in Washington last month.

Adams’s lawyer Alex Spiro said Thursday that the accusation of a quid pro quo was a “total lie.”

“We did not offer anything and the department did not ask us anything about us,” Spiro said in an email to journalists. “We were asked if the case had any relationship with the security of national security and the application of immigration and, honestly, we replied that.”

On Friday, Adams denied that there was an agreement for the case to disappear.

“I want to be crystalline with the New Yorkers: I never offered, nor did anyone offer in my name, any trade of my authority as mayor for the end of my case. Never, “said the mayor in a statement.

In his renunciation letter, Scotten wrote: “No orderly freedom system can allow the government to use the carrot of dismissal charges, or the stick to threaten to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support their political objectives.”

The prosecutor said he was following “a tradition in the public service to resign in a last effort to avoid a serious mistake.”

He said he could see how a president as Trump, with experience in business and politics, “could see the dismissal contemplated with leverage as a good, although unpleasant treatment.”

But Scotten said that any prosecutor “would know that our laws and traditions do not allow us to use fiscal power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials, in this way.”

He added: “If no lawyer from the president is willing to give him that advice, then I hope he eventually find someone who is a fool or enough coward, to present his motion. But I was never going to be me. “

Adams, a Democrat, declared himself innocent of the positions in September, but recently joined Trump, who criticized the case against Adams and said he was open to Adams, who was a republican recorded in the 1990s, a sorry.