{"id":109046,"date":"2025-02-26T18:03:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T18:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/new-york-city-mayor-eric-adams-asks-court-to-toss-case-against-him-due-to-prosecutorial-misconduct\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T18:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T18:03:34","slug":"new-york-city-mayor-eric-adams-asks-court-to-toss-case-against-him-due-to-prosecutorial-misconduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/new-york-city-mayor-eric-adams-asks-court-to-toss-case-against-him-due-to-prosecutorial-misconduct\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Eric Adams asks court to toss case against him due to prosecutorial misconduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-02-26\/Untitled%20design%20%2829%29.png\" alt><figcaption>Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; The corruption case against New York Mayor Eric Adams should be dropped because of \u201can extraordinary flurry\u201d of leaks by prosecutors, his attorney said in a new court filing Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney, Alex Spiro, accused \u201csomeone within the government\u201d of leaking a letter written by then-acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon, who resigned in protest of an order to dismiss the bribery and campaign finance charges.<\/p>\n<p>The letter, dated Feb. 12, said the Justice Department agreed to dismiss criminal charges as part of a quid pro quo to secure the mayor\u2019s help with President Trump\u2019s crackdown on illegal immigration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe disclosure of this letter to the press was part of an extraordinary flurry of leaked internal Justice Department correspondence that included memoranda from the Acting Deputy Attorney General to the Southern District and an unhinged resignation letter by one of the former line prosecutors on this case,\u201d Spiro said.<\/p>\n<p>The line prosecutor Spiro references is Hagan Scotten, whose resignation letter said only a \u201cfool\u201d or \u201ccoward\u201d would carry out the order to drop the mayor\u2019s case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to violating Mayor Adams\u2019s fundamental constitutional rights and ability to receive a fair trial, the government\u2019s leaks violated numerous statutory and court rules, including the Justice Department\u2019s own longstanding policies aimed at curbing prosecutorial misconduct,\u201d Spiro said. \u201cSimply put, the government\u2019s conduct has destroyed whatever presumption of innocence Mayor Adams had left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The judge, Dale Ho, declined to immediately grant the Trump administration\u2019s motion to dismiss the case and appointed Paul Clement, a former U.S. solicitor general, to examine the government\u2019s motives.<\/p>\n<p>In the new motion filed first thing Wednesday morning, Adams asked the court to toss the case for a new reason &#8212; prosecutorial misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Court should act swiftly and dismiss this case with prejudice to prevent further irrevocable harm to Mayor Adams,\u201d the motion said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. 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