Read the letter from Emil Bove that accepts Danielle Sassoon’s resignation, annotated

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Acceptance of Sassoon’s resignation adopts Bove an aggressive tone from the start in response to her defense over his orders. He says she “lost the sight of oath” she had taken by believing that she can make her own decisions independently of President Trump and the legal attorney’s priorities. Bove reiterates that the Adams case was “a politically motivated prosecution” – after Sassoon accused him of dropping it for political reasons.

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Bove says that the line contracts in the case, which he has previously praised, will now be examined because they also refused to obey his orders and will be put on leave. They will continue to be paid but cannot go into federal officers or use their laptops. Sassoon’s behavior will also be evaluated, he says.

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The Adams case is removed from the US lawyer’s office in the southern district of New York and transferred to Washington, where it will be dismissed, Bove writes. The day he sent this letter, five prosecutors supervised the public integrity unit that also left instead of dropping the case.

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Bove says he exhaustively reviewed the case and considered the problems before ordering it to fall and responded to Sassoon’s claims in his own letter that the process was rushed and that she was left out of it.

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This “weapon” Finding Bove refers to here seems to be ripped from Trump’s own rhetoric about the charges brought against him, which he said without evidence was political. Similarly, there is no evidence that has been published to support Bove’s finding that the Adams case was brought for political reasons.

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Bove claims that the charging of Adams, after a three-year investigation, was “rushed” before last year’s presidential election because former US lawyer Damian Williams hoped that Curry benefit with Kamala Harris, the democratic candidate. There is no public proof of it, and Sassoon has said that William’s commitment to the Adams case was “minimal.”

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Bove, who sounds more like a defense lawyer for Adams than a top official in the Ministry of Justice, demolishes the process with which a magnificent jury accused the mayor and said they had done it based on a “unilateral” and “partial” presentation of the evidence.

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Bove again gets ugly here and calls Sassoon’s discussion of the values ​​of Antonin Scalia, whom she was a clerk, as “questionable.” Then he finds a quote from Scalia to support his own argument about political weapons.

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In his order, Bove praised worked on line contracts, but now calls the work of the southern district’s accusations “extremely problematic” and then accuses them of “insubordination.”

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Bove defends his argument that Adams cannot be prosecuted because it inhibits his cooperation with Trump’s immigration refusal and calls it an “unacceptable” situation that “directly brings life to millions of New Yorkers.”

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Bove denies Sassoon’s accusation that he engaged in a Quid Pro Quo to drop the Adams case in exchange for the mayor’s help with Trump’s immigration crop.

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Bove, who previously said he did not order the case that was dropped on the basis of the actual evidence, now attacks the strength of the case and said it was based on “extremely aggressive” actual and legal theories. Although he has said the case could be revived later, the defense would certainly intervene in these statements if prosecutors tried to do so.

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Bove says the investigation of prosecutors about the case will investigate “questionable” movements made by their team. He suggests that this team would have tried to say Adams to give criminal statements before charging him.

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Matthew Podolsky is the prosecutor who takes over Sassoon now. Hagan Scotten and Derek Wikstrom were the line contracts in the case that have now been put on leave and are under investigation.