Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Year : 2, Issue: 30
CNBC: Attorneys for New York City Mayor Eric Adams asked a federal judge Wednesday for an outright dismissal of his criminal corruption case, citing alleged misconduct by prosecutors.
Adams’ lawyers cited a leaked letter from the former acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon to Attorney General Pam Bondi in mid-February.
The letter contained a statement about Adams’ alleged guilt, the intention to file new charges against him and the suggestion the U.S. Department of Justice had engaged in a quid pro quo with the mayor to dismiss the case.
Sassoon was one of at least seven federal prosecutors who resigned rather than follow the DOJ’s order to request a dismissal of the case without prejudice, which would allow the DOJ to refile charges if it saw fit.
“To be sure, the February 12 letter, and the decision to leak it, were last acts of desperation in defense of a meritless case that never should have been pursued in the first place,” wrote Adams’ lawyers Alex Spiro and William Burck in their filing in Manhattan federal court.
