Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney has opened the Department of Justice up to "some embarrassment" with his demand to drop corruption charges against New York City mayor Eric Adams, according to a CNN correspondent.
Emil Bove, a former Trump lawyer and now acting deputy attorney general, directed Danielle Sassoon, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, to dismiss the case with prejudice, but she resigned in protest, and CNN's Kara Scannell reported what could come next in the case.
"She's saying that, in fact, what they are doing now is actually amplifying this concern about the Justice Department being politicized by saying that they should dismiss this case, not on the merits," Scannell said. "Now, after she resigned, she sent a letter to the attorney general and then informed her staff. Bove then put two of the line prosecutors who've been working this case on administrative leave because they would not sign a motion to dismiss. He then brought it to Washington, D.C., transferred the case entirely there, [and] folks in the public integrity section, which oversees these corruption cases, five of them resigned because they wouldn't sign this. So the next step is, does Bove himself sign it? He is an alumni of the Southern District of New York, which also makes this extraordinary, or does he get someone else to do it?"
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"But that doesn't end there, because the judge is going to have to sign off on this, and as Sassoon explains in this letter, they are opening the department up to some embarrassment here because the judge is very likely going to have a hearing, haul them in and ask them what grounds?" Scannell added. "What legal grounds does he have to actually agree to this dismissal, and, you know, we saw, remember, Gen. Michael Flynn, his case. There were issues with that, too. A similar thing came up here, and ultimately Trump pardoned him because it got so messy within the courts."
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