3 The federal prosecutors assigned to Eric Adams Case resign, affirms that they do not admit to “ reprehensible acts ”
Three federal prosecutors who worked on the corruption case against the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, resigned Tuesday – while they were on administrative leave – instead of accepting “prerequisites” on their return to the office, by sending a vivid letter to the Attorney General Todd Blanche and by accusing him of pressures to “express their studies and admit to faults” in the case.
“The Department has placed each of us on an ostensibly administrative leave to examine our and the office of the Southern York district office, the treatment of the Adams case”, the trio of prosecutors assigned to the ADAMS, Celia V. Cohen, Andrew Rohrbach and Derek Wiksrom, written in Blanche. “It is now clear that one of the prerequisites you have placed on our return to the office is that we must express regrets and admit reprehensible acts by the office in the context of the refusal to move to reject the case. We will not confess the reprehensible acts in the event of no.”
The three lawyers were part of a group from the Ministry of Justice who refused to sign the dismissal of the corruption case against Adams in February. They were placed on administrative leave last month when an investigation took place.
“We served under the presidents of the two parties, advancing their priorities while continuing justice without fear or favor,” wrote the three prosecutors. “The role of a career prosecutor is not to define a policy. But a prosecutor must respect the oath to maintain the constitution and the laws of the United States and the rules of professional ethics established by the bar and the courts.”
They added later: “Now the ministry decided that obedience replaces everything else, forcing us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of Washington’s instructions. This is false.”
New York mayor Eric Adams speaks at a press conference after a helicopter accident in the Hudson river at Pier 40 in New York on April 12, 2025.
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The fallout from the Acting Emil Bove-Bove-General request for the South New York district rejects the accusations without prejudice began in mid-February. Danielle Sassoon, then American lawyer for the South New York district, resigned from her post on February 13 after suggesting that the leadership of the MJ, including Bove, was explicitly aware of a counterpart suggested by Adams lawyers, affirming that the vocal support of Adams against President Donald Trump was stimulated by rejecting the index against him Donald Trump.
“Rather than being rewarded, Adams’ advocacy should be called for what it is: a bad offer of helping immigration in exchange for a rejection of its case,” Sassoon wrote at the time. “Although Mr. Bove has triggered any intention to exchange leniency in this case against the help of Adams to enforce federal law, it is the nature of naked negotiation in the memo of Mr. Bove.”
Five other MJ officials would join Sassoon to resign from the office to protest, while at least six senior officials from the Ministry of Justice refused to sign the dismissal of the case, sources said in ABC News last month.
Adams was charged last year in the South New York District in five counts in a long -standing conspiracy linked to inappropriate advantages, illegal campaign contributions and an attempted concealment. He had pleaded not guilty.
The dismissal documents were then signed by a lawyer for the public integrity section of the Ministry of Justice, leaving the decision to reject the case to a federal judge in New York.
On April 2, judge Dale Ho officially rejected the case, however, he did so with prejudice, which means that the accusations cannot be relaunched. The DoJ had asked that the charges be rejected without prejudice and said they could be brought against Adams following the Mayor’s elections in November.
But three weeks later, the benefits continued with Tuesday’s letter.
The three prosecutors put an end to their letter to Blanche: “Serving in the South District of New York was an honor. There is no greater privilege than to work for an institution whose mandate is to do the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons. We will not abandon this principle to keep our jobs.”
The American lawyer’s office for the South New York district refused to comment.
