The highest public prosecutor in Manhattan has resigned after the Ministry of Justice had instructed her to drop the allegations of corruption against the Mayor of New York City.
A spokesman for the US public prosecutor for the southern district of New York (SDNY) confirmed Danielle Sasso’s resignation on Thursday.
It comes four days after the deputy lawyer Emil Bove had sent a memo to Sassoon in which she ordered to drop the case against the New York Mayor Eric Adams. Prosecutors in Sassoon’s office have not yet submitted a formal application that rejected the case.
The Ministry of Justice did not immediately answer a request for a comment.
Adams, a former police captain, are accused of having done illegal campaign contributions and bribes from foreigners, including wasteful trips abroad. He sees the conspiracy, wire fraud and bribes in an indictment against five points, which was sworn in last September.
Adams, a democrat who has closed the relationship with US President Donald Trump, has not guilty.
The southern district, which is known to bring top -class cases about financial crimes, public corruption and national security, has long been known for his independence of the Ministry of Justice in Washington.
It was not immediately clear who would take Sassoons.
The mayor of New York City and the former NYPD officer Eric Adams were charged with five federal offers in connection with allegations that he took over illegal campaign contributions and bribes from foreign nationals in exchange for favors.
Half a dozen former Sdny prosecutors said Reuters that the order of Bove, himself a former Sdny prosecutor, who also acted as a personal criminal lawyer of Trump, raised questions about whether the office was regardless of political pressure during the second term White House of Trump can stay.
In his memo, Bove said the decision to drop the case has nothing to do with his merits. Instead, he wrote that Adam’s case denied Trump to help against illegal immigration, one of the top priorities of the Republican President.
Trump has revised the Ministry of Justice to end what he describes his weapon against political opponents during the administration of democratic President Joe Biden against political opponents who say critics to divide the department for political moods.
