Three Fed Prosecutors Resign Instead Of Bending The Knee: 'Obedience Supersedes All' TPM

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Three of the federal prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan who worked on the Eric Adams corruption case decided to resign rather than be forced by Trump’s allies in the Justice Department to concede, under threat of termination, that they erred in refusing to abandon the case.

New York City Mayor Adams, of course, faced bribery and fraud charges for allegedly engaging in a corrupt fundraising scheme before Trump administration officials ordered the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York to see the case dismissed in February. At the time, Trump administration officials claimed that the case was impeding Adams’ ability to work with the Trump administration on its deportation agenda. Several prosecutors resigned or were placed on leave as Trump’s personal attorneys-turned-DOJ heads cast about for someone to execute their demands.

With the three latest resignations, the total number of federal prosecutors who have left over the Trump administration’s effort to shut down this one prosecution in exchange for political leverage now comes to 11, including officials in both the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and Main Justice.

The three prosecutors to resign this week, Celia V. Cohen, Andrew Rohrbach and Derek Wikstrom, were all placed on leave earlier this year after the Trump administration told SDNY to seek a dismissal. In an email sent to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday, which was obtained by the New York Times, the three revealed Blanche told them that, in order to be reinstated, they must admit they erred in refusing to move to dismiss the case.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/three-fed-prosecutors-resign-instead-of-bending-the-knee-obedience-supersedes-all

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