Prosecutors In Eric Adams Case Blast DOJ And Resign

Politico reports:

Three of the Manhattan federal prosecutors who worked on the criminal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams resigned Tuesday, accusing the Justice Department of trying to force them to admit wrongdoing in connection with their resistance to dropping the charges.

“The Department has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions of Washington,” the prosecutors wrote in a letter to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. “That is wrong.”

The prosecutors, Celia Cohen, Andrew Rohrbach and Derek Wikstrom, had been placed on administrative leave in February after they, along with the then-acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon, balked at accepting the Justice Department’s orders to drop the five-count corruption case against the Democratic mayor.

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NEW: Three of the SDNY prosecutors on the Eric Adams case resigned today, saying the Justice Department pressured them to admit to wrongdoing. Here’s their letter to DAG Todd Blanche: pic.twitter.com/H9gbU0WBfd

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