A federal prosecutor assigned to the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams resigned Friday in a blistering letter that accused top leaders at the Justice Department of looking for a “fool” to dismiss the criminal charges, reported CNN.
The attorney, Hagan Scotten, is the seventh person to resign
over the calamitous effort to dismiss charges against Adams. Scotten was a line
prosecutor on the case and had been placed on administrative leave Thursday for
refusing to sign off on its dismissal.
In a letter to acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove,
Scotten slammed what he called a “dismissal-with-leverage.”
“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,” Scotten told Bove, who is
President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney.
“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,” Scotten added.
“But it was never going to be me.”
Scotten, a Harvard law graduate awarded two bronze stars as
a troop commander in Iraq, is a seasoned prosecutor who has handled several
corruption cases in New York including three associates of former Mayor Rudy
Giuliani. He has also worked on other cases, against Bishop Lamor Whitehead,
who is close to Adams and was convicted at trial on multiple counts of fraud.
Scotten was also a clerk to Chief Justice John Roberts.
CNN has reached out to Scotten for comment.
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