The best federal public prosecutor of Manhattan has resigned after she refused the charges of corruption against the mayor of New York City Eric Adams.
Republican Danielle Sassoon sent an e -mail to the staff on Thursday in which her resignation was announced as an interim -American lawyer for the southern district of New York.
Sassoon had told our attorney -general Pam Bondi in a letter of resignation of eight pages that were prepared to seek a new indictment that Adams accused of more crimes to destroy evidence, to instruct others to destroy evidence and false information to be provided to the FBI.
Before resigning, she warned that she was convinced that Mayor Adams committed the crimes with which he is being charged. “
She said that she would refuse illegal campaign contributions and bribes of free or cheaply travel from allegations that arises from the corruption case that comes from allegations that arises, which comes from allegations.
Two officials from the Senior Ministry of Justice also stopped after the leadership of the Ministry in Washington had dropped the case.
Trump's administration officials ordered public prosecutors in New York to end the case against Adams so that he could help with the performance and campaign of the president of the president without re -election without the burden of pending charges.
The primary is four months away and Adams has several challengers.
Republican Danielle Sassoon sent an e -mail to all staff who announced her resignation as an interim -American lawyer for the southern district of New York
She said she would refuse the order of the Ministry of Justice to drop the corruption case against him, which comes from allegations that adams (photo) illegal campaign contributions and bribes of free or discount on people who wanted to buy his influence
In response, the acting deputy American Attorney General, Emil Bove, Sassoon reproduced for the defense of his order to reject the case against the mayor of the Democratic.
Bove said that Sassoon was 'unable to revise the circumstances of this persecution fairly and impartially'.
He said that the case would be transferred to the Ministry of Justice, who would submit a motion to 'further targeting' the charges and beam of Adams.
In the E -mail of Sassoon to the staff who are aware of her resignation, she gave no reason for her decision.
She said she had informed Bondi and added: “As I told her, it was my greatest to represent the United States and to pursue justice as an public prosecutor in the southern district of New York.”
In her letter to Bondi, Sassoon wrote: 'When I took my oath from office three weeks ago, I promised to properly discharge the duties of the office … not to use the criminal enforcement authority of the United States to achieve politics.
'Because the law does not support dismissal, and because I am convinced that Adams committed the crimes with which he is being charged, I cannot seek dismissal driven by incorrect considerations.
“I understand my duty as an officer of justice to enforce the law impartial, and that includes the prosecution of a validly returned indictment, regardless of whether its dismissal would be political, for the defense or to those who have appointed me.”
Sassoon was not the public prosecutor who was responsible for setting charges against Adams, but she took over after Trump returned to the White House after the resignation of Damian Williams
The Ministry of Justice has not asked Sassoon to resign, according to a departmental officer who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Sassoon was not the public prosecutor who was responsible for filing charges against Adams, but she took over after Trump returned to the White House after Trump's resignation.
Williams resigned after Trump's election victory in November and Sassoon was tapped to serve as an acting American lawyer on January 21, the day after Trump returned to the office.
Her role was always intended as temporary.
Officers of Justice were reportedly alerted by the mission of the Trump government to reject the charges on the basis of political considerations, rather than the power or weakness of the case itself.
Bove had directed that it was done as quickly as 'practical as possible', but there have been no public statements or actions of the prosecution team.
On Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi said that she would 'watch' why the case still had to be rejected. The charges remained in place from Thursday afternoon.
Adams was accused in September that, although he worked as president of Brooklyn Borough, more than $ 100,000 in illegal campaign contributions and lush travel benefits such as expensive flights, luxury hotel enclosures and even accepted a trip to a bathhouse.
The indictment said that a Turkish official who helped facilitating the trips and then leaned on Adams for favors, including him to lobby the fire brigade to leave a new 36 -storey diplomatic building open on time for one Planned visit by the president of Turkey.
The prosecutors said they had the evidence that Adams personally ordered political assistants to ask for foreign donations and to hide them to help the campaign qualify for a city program that offers a generous competition -funded competition for donations with small dollars .
According to federal legislation, foreign nationals may be prohibited in contributions to American election campaigns.
