The seventh prosecutor in the case of Eric Adams renounces and calls Trump’s former lawyer in a scathing letter

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A federal prosecutor assigned to the case of corruption against the mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, resigned on Friday in a abrasing letter That accused the main leaders of the Department of Justice to seek a “fool” to dismiss criminal charges.

The lawyer, do Scotten, is the seventh person who renounces the effort to dismiss the charges against Adams. Scotten was a line prosecutor in the case and had been administrative license on Thursday for refusing to sign his dismissal.

In a letter to the Interim Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, he silenced what he called an “dismissal with leverage.”

“Any American lawyer assistant 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,” Scotten told Bove, who is President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer.

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

Scotten, a graduate of Harvard’s law, granted two bronze stars as a troops commander in Iraq, is an experienced prosecutor who has handled several cases of corruption in New York, including three associates by former mayor Rudy Giuliani. He has also worked in other cases, against Bishop Lamor Whitehead, which is close to Adams and was sentenced in the trial for multiple fraud positions. Scotten was also an employee of the president of the Supreme Court John Roberts.

CNN has communicated with Pattten to comment.

The justification of the leadership of the Department of Justice of the Department of Justice to try to dismiss the case: that abandoning the positions would allow Adams to dedicate their “full attention and resources” to combat illegal immigration and its re -election campaign of 2025.

“No orderly freedom system can allow the government to use the carrot of dismissed charges, or the stick to threaten to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support their policy objectives.”

Adams declared himself innocent of five federal positions. At this time, the Department of Justice has not presented its motion to dismiss the case against Adams.

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