The New York Times is reporting that Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove on Friday ramped up a pressure campaign on career Department of Justice officials in his attempts to get them to go along with dismissing charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams.
According to the Times' sources, Bove "held a group discussion with the entire public integrity section, roughly two dozen lawyers after Thursday’s resignations, looking for someone to sign a court document seeking dismissal of the charges against Adams."
The Times then added that "the prospect of immediate resignations or firings hangs over every conversation about the issue" regarding Adams' case.
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Multiple prosecutors have resigned in the wake of the decision to drop the case against Adams, including former Acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon and former United States Attorney Hagan Scotten, who had previously been the lead investigator in the case against Adams.
In his resignation letter, Scotten accused the Trump administration of offering a corrupt quid-pro-quo deal that involved dropping his prosecution in exchange for complying with the administration's immigration initiatives.
"No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives," he argued.
