Fed prosecutors in Eric Adams case resign

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Three of the Manhattan federal prosecutors who worked on the criminal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams resigned Tuesday, accusing the Justice Department of trying to force them to admit wrongdoing in connection with their resistance to dropping the charges. "The Department has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions of Washington," the prosecutors wrote in a letter to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. "That is wrong."

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... The prosecutors, Celia Cohen, Andrew Rohrbach and Derek Wikstrom, had been placed on administrative leave in February after they, along with the then-acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon, balked at accepting the Justice Department's orders to drop the five-count corruption case against the Democratic mayor. ...

"It is now clear that one of the preconditions you have placed on our returning to the Office is that we must express regret and admit some wrongdoing by the Office in connection with the refusal to move to dismiss the case," they wrote. "We will not confess wrongdoing when there was none."

A spokesperson for the Justice Department didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. ...

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#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-22 03:43 PM | Reply

Bald-faced corruption from Trump, yet again

#2 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-04-22 04:08 PM | Reply

Democrats target Adams after he breaks the Democrat line and admits illegals are a problem.

Now, the prosecutors that willingly (probably gleefully) did the lawfare prosecution don't want to admit they did anything wrong as they don't want to open themselves up to prosecution. Get these losers out of government and positions of power.

#3 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-22 07:47 PM | Reply

DEATH TO TYRANTS

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-22 10:14 PM | Reply