Emil Bove has NOT done this on the legal merits….
(Bove is the little guy that sat at Trump’s table in his criminal court appearances)
But like on his boss Felon Trump?
He gives a POLITICAL reason….
Up to 7 DOJ official’s in NYC and Wash DC REFUSED to use the political reason to sign off on what EVERYONE see’s AS a ‘deal ‘ between President Trump and the Mayor to beat the charges from Trump’s Justice Department …
The Federal judge can turn down the effort to drop the case and order a trial….
The first act of a drama that has shaken the Department of Justice ended Friday when a top official signed a formal request to drop corruption charges against New York’s mayor after Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney refused to and resigned.
The official, Emil Bove III, had originally ordered Manhattan federal prosecutors who brought the case against Mayor Eric Adams to seek its dismissal. But the leader of the Manhattan office, Danielle R. Sassoon, resigned rather than obey, and she was followed out the door by at least six other prosecutors in New York and Washington.
Mr. Bove, whose order specified that the decision to dismiss the case had nothing do with its legal strengths, was ultimately compelled to sign the motion himself, along with two other Washington prosecutors, Edward Sullivan and Antoinette T. Bacon.
The reason he gave the judge was the same as he gave the New York prosecutors: that the prosecution would hinder Mr. Adams’s ability to cooperate with the Trump administration’s immigration policies. It was a highly unusual rationale for dismissing a criminal case, which is typically evaluated on the basis of the facts and the law. The abnormality was underscored by Mr. Bove’s difficulty in finding a prosecutor willing to affix a name to the filing.
Now attention will turn to Dale E. Ho, the judge who is overseeing the case in Manhattan federal court.
Mr. Adams was indicted last year on five counts, including bribery, fraud and soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations. He pleaded not guilty and was scheduled for trial in April. Ms. Sassoon, in a letter to the attorney general this week, said that prosecutors were prepared to bring an additional charge that would accuse him of destroying evidence and instructing others to do the same.
A lawyer for Mr. Adams, Alex Spiro, called that a false claim. He said that if prosecutors had proof that the mayor destroyed evidence “they would have brought those charges — as they continually threatened to do.”
Under the law, judges may question a prosecutor’s decision to seek a dismissal of charges, but they almost always grant such requests. Stephen Gillers, a legal ethics professor at New York University School of Law, said that Judge Ho could decide that the Adams case was the rare exception, that the government’s justification was inadequate.
Ordinarily it is the responsibility of the U.S. attorney whose office prosecutes a case to move for its dismissal. But Ms. Sassoon, 38, quit Thursday after telling the attorney general that she would not obey an order that had no valid basis…..
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Mr. Adams has praised parts of Mr. Trump’s agenda, visited him near his Mar-a-Lago compound and attended his inauguration a few days later. Mr. Trump had floated the possibility of a pardon, and criticized Mr. Adams’s prosecution, saying the mayor had been “treated pretty unfairly.”
Note….
We DO have in America a convicted criminal as President letting others charged with Federal crimes let go if they ‘do the right thing for him”….
This President ‘Owns’ the Federal Justice Department….
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