The Department of Justice asks the courts to dismiss corruption charges against the mayor of New York City, Eric Adams,

New York – The Department of Justice asked a court on Friday that dismissed corruption charges against the mayor of New York City Eric AdamsWith a senior Washington official who intervened after federal prosecutors in Manhattan rejected their demands to leave the case and some stopped protesting.

The attorney general’s attorney general, Emil Bove, the second in command of the department and the lawyers of the Department of Public Integrity and the Criminal Division presented documents asking to end the case. They argue that the case was tarnished by the appearances of incorrectness and said that letting him continue to interfere with the mayor’s re -election offer. A judge must still approve the request.

The presentation occurred hours after prosecutors in the public integrity section, who handle corruption cases, were told that their work could be at risk of not advancing to handle the matter, according to an informed person on the discussions that They insisted on anonymity to talk about a private meeting.

The three -page dismissal motion brought the signature of Bove and the names of Edward Sullivan, the litigation lawyer of the Public Integrity Section, and Antoinette Bacon, a supervision official in the Department’s criminal division. No one from the federal prosecutor in Manhattan, who brought the case of Adams, signed the document.

The measure arrived five days in a confrontation between the leadership of the Department of Justice and his office in Manhattan, which for a long time has been proud of its independence.

At least seven prosecutors in Manhattan and Washington resign instead of carrying out the Bove Directive To stop the case, including the United States interim prosecutor in Manhattan and the interim boss of the Public Integrity Section.

The Department of Justice is trying to dismiss Adams charges with the option to put them back on a later date. Bove said earlier this week that the new Prosecutor of the United States of Manhattan can decide whether to refile the charges after the November elections. Adams faces a Democratic primary in June, with several challenges aligned. His judgment had been on the way to being held in spring.

Bove concluded that continuing the Prosecutor’s Office would interfere with Adams’s ability to govern, raising “unacceptable threats for public safety, national security and initiatives and federal federal immigration policies,” said the dismissal motion. Among other things, he said, the case caused the case. Adams will be denied access to the necessary confidential information to help protect the city.

Bove on Monday directed Danielle SassoonA Republican who serves as an interim prosecutor of the United States in New York, to withdraw charges against Adams. He argued that President Donald Trump needed the mayor’s help to advance in his immigration application agenda. Bove also echoed statements that Adams has made without evidence that the case was retaliation for its criticisms of the Immigration Policies of the Biden Administration.

Instead of complying, Sassoon resigned on Thursday, along with five officials from the High Rank Department of Justice in Washington. A day before, he sent a letter to Trump’s new attorney general, Pam Bondi, asking him to meet and reconsider the board to leave the case.

As the officials of the Department of Justice worked on Friday to take the case and finish it, a federal prosecutor in Manhattan who worked for Sassoon and was involved in the case of Adams resigned, and criticized Bove in the process.

Hagan Scotten wrote in a letter of renunciation of Bove that would take a “fool” or a “coward” to know Your demand To release the charges.

Bove, who launched on Thursday, could, along with other prosecutors in the case against Adams, was suspended with salary.

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 BoveScotten said that he was “completely agreed” with Sassoon’s refusal to seek the dismissal of the positions that the mayor had accepted more than $ 100,000 in illegal campaign contributions and luxurious travel benefits of foreign citizens who seek to buy their influence while It was a Brooklyn Borough campaign that campaigns. mayor.

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

Richer and Tucker reported from Washington.