NEW YORK (AP) – A former public prosecutor on Monday insisted on a federal judge who persecution of the persecution of Mayor of New York City Eric Adams To allocate a special counselor to help decide how to deal with the request from the Ministry of Justice to drop charges, while three ex-US lawyers insist on a ‘search for actual investigation’.
Attorney Nathaniel Akerman, Judge Dale E. Ho said in a letter in the case record in the Federal Court of Manhattan that he was trying to intervene because no one represented the interest of the public after three lawyers from the Ministry of Justice in Washington on Friday have made request.
The one-off prosecutor of Watergate urged the court to reject the request for dismissal and to say that the court could investigate how the Ministry of Justice made his decision and could require acting deputy attorney general Emil boveWho for the first time ordered officers of justice to drop the case, to appear in court and explain his position.
Akerman, who represents a common cause, a non -party -related interest group for the integrity of the American elections, said that the judge should eventually appoint an independent special public prosecutor in the case.
Three ex-American lawyers also submitted arguments to Ho and said on Monday that what was at stake was “much more than an internal public prosecutor about an individual matter.”
“The public furore that originated last week is concerned 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 American lawyer from 1980 to 1983; Robert J. Cleary, American lawyer for New Jersey from 1999 to 2002; and Deirdre M. Daly, American lawyer for Connecticut from 2013 to 2017.
They suggested first to learn why the Ministry of Justice wanted to reject the charges and whether the reasons for the pretext were.
If the judge decides that dismissal of charges is inappropriate, he will have several legal remedies, including the authority to appoint a special public prosecutor or to lead federal public prosecutors to provide evidence, including Grand Jury Materials, available For state and local prosecutors, 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 short, depending on the circumstances, the court could have various procedural ways available to protect the integrity of the court and the legal system against abuse,” said the former prosecutors.
The former projects also said the court that additional public statements regarding the events of the past week were issued or would soon be issued by hundreds of former Federal Public Prosecutors.
Adams is not guilty of accusations that, although in his earlier role as President of Brooklyn Borough, he accepted more than $ 100,000 in illegal campaign contributions and lush travel consumption from a Turkish official and business leaders who wanted to buy his influence.
The last week can be seen after an unusual public fight between Bove, the second command of the Ministry of Justice, and two top federal prosecutors in New York: Interim Manhattan US Attorney Danielle Sassoon and Hagan Scotten, an assistant -american lawyer in Manhattan who led the Adams perseverance.
On Thursday Sassoon resignedTogether with five high -ranking officials from the Ministry of Justice. A day later, Scotten resigned and noted that Sassoon had resisted a requirement that the charges would be withdrawn and the possibility they could be restored after this year’s elections.
“No system of orderly freedom can enable the government to use the root of rejecting charges, or the stick of threatening to re -bring them, to encourage a chosen officer to support her policy objectives,” ” he wrote.
On Monday, Adams – in the midst of calls to resign through some Democrats – confirmed that four of his best delegates had decided to resign in the consequences of the The urge of the Ministry of Justice to end the corruption case Against him and takes care of his collaboration with Trump’s immigration performance.
In his letter to Ho, Akerman repeated the claim of Sassoon that the Ministry of Justice had accepted a request from Adams’ lawyers for a ‘Quid Pro quo’ – his help with immigration enforcement in exchange for dropping the case. She called it a “breathtaking and dangerous precedent.”
Akerman wrote that there was “overwhelming evidence from Doj’s own internal documents showing that the dismissal of the indictment of Adams is not in the public interest and is part of a corrupt quid pro quo between mayor Adams and the Trump government.”
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He said that the internal documents show that Adams, in exchange for dismissal of the indictment, agreed to wrongly help the Trump government with enforcement of immigration.
Adams’ lawyer Alex Spiro said on Thursday that the claim of a Quid Pro quo was a ‘total lie’.
When he ordered Sassoon to drop the indictment a week ago, Bove said that the mayor of the largest city in America was needed to help with Trump’s immigration trail and the dismissal of charges could enable Adams Campaign for re -election Against several opponents striking due to criminal prosecution.