The former Watergate prosecutor urges the judge to reject the request to withdraw charges against the Mayor of New York

NEW YORK – A former Watergate prosecutor urged a federal judge to preside over the prosecution of Mayor of New York City Eric Adams To assign a special advisor to help decide how to handle the request of the Justice Department to leave the charges, while three former American lawyers urged an “objective search consultation.”

The lawyer Nathaniel Akerman told Judge Dale E. Ho in a letter filed in the case registry in the Federal Court of Manhattan who tried to intervene because no one was representing the public’s interest after three lawyers from the Department of Justice in Washington They made the request on Friday.

The Single Prosecutor of Watergate urged the judge to reject the request for dismissal, saying that the Court could consider how the Department of Justice reached its decision and may require Emil Bovewho first ordered prosecutors to drop the case, to appear before the court and explain their position.

Akerman, who represents the common cause, a non -partisan defense group for the integrity of US elections, said the judge may need to appoint an independent special prosecutor for the case.

Three United States lawyers also presented arguments to HO on Monday, saying that what was at stake was “much more than an internal tax dispute over an individual case.”

“The public fury that has emerged during the past week raises concerns about respect for the rule of law and the division of power between the executive and judicial branches of the government in our nation,” wrote John S. Martin Jr., the lawyer of Manhattan Us Manhattan from 1980 to 1983; Robert J. Cleary, New Jersey US prosecutor from 1999 to 2002; and Deirdre M. Daly, American prosecutor of Connecticut from 2013 to 2017.

They suggested that first find out why the Department of Justice wanted to dismiss the charges and if their reasons were pre -ox.

If the judge decides that the dismissal of the charges is inappropriate, he will have multiple resources, including the power to appoint a special prosecutor or to lead federal prosecutors to test, including large jury materials, available for state prosecutors and premises, they said.

They also wrote that a factual investigation could lead to other “necessary and important results”, including the possibility of a contempt procedure, criminal references and disciplinary recommendations.

“In summary, depending on the circumstances, the court could have a variety of procedural routes available to protect the integrity of the Court and the abuse justice system,” said the former prosecutors.

The former prosecutors also told the judge that additional public statements have been issued on last week’s events or would be issued shortly by hundreds of former federal prosecutors.

Adams declared himself innocent of the positions that, although in his previous role as president of the Brooklyn County, he accepted more than $ 100,000 in illegal campaign contributions and luxurious travel advantages of a Turkish official and business leaders who seek to buy their influence .

The last week has appeared after an unusual public fight between Bove, the second in command of the Department of Justice and two Federal Prosecutors of New York: the interim prosecutor of the United States of Manhattan Danielle Sassoon and do Scotten, an assistant from the US prosecutor in Manhattan who directed the adams prosecution.

Thursday, Sassoon resignedtogether with five officials of the High Rank Department of Justice. A day later, he resigned, noting that Sassoon had resisted adequately to the demand for charges to be withdrawn and the possibility that they could be reinstated after this year’s elections.

“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,” he wrote.

On Monday, Adams, in the midst of calls to resign from some Democrats, confirmed that four of their main deputies had decided to resign on the consequences of the The impulse of the Department of Justice to end the case of corruption against him and guarantee his cooperation with Trump’s immigration repression.

In his letter to Ho, Akerman echoed Sassoon’s statement that the Department of Justice had accepted a request from Adams lawyers for a “Quid Pro quo”, his help on the application of immigration in exchange for letting The case. She called him an “impressive and dangerous precedent.”

Akerman wrote that there was “overwhelming evidence of the internal documents of the Department of Justice that show that the dismissal of Adams’s accusation is not of public interest and is part of a corrupt Quid Pro quo between Mayor Adams and the Trump administration.”

He said that internal documents show that in exchange for the dismissal of the accusation, Adams agreed to incorrectly help the Trump administration with the application of immigration.

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

When he ordered Sassoon to withdraw the charges a week ago, Bove said that the mayor of the largest city in the United States was necessary to help Trump’s immigration repression and the dismissal of the charges could allow Adams to Adams Reelection campaign against multiple opponents not spent by criminal charges.