Prosecutors ask to drop case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams | LiveNOW from FOX

The Department of Justice has filed a motion to dismiss its corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

This comes the resignation of Danielle Sassoon, a top federal prosecutor in Manhattan.

On Friday, Hagan Scotten, an assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York resigned over the Department of Justice’s order to dismiss New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ bribery case.

“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. There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views,” shared Scotten in his resignation letter.

“I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials, in this way. If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

Adams was indicted in 2024 for allegedly accepting gifts totaling more than $100,000 from Turkish citizens in exchange for favors.

LiveNOW’s Christina Evans breaks it down with legal analyst Neama Rahmani.

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