By Jonah E. BromwichEmma G. Fitzsimmons and Alyce McFadden
Mayor Eric Adams of New York faced increasingly loud calls to resign Friday, after a fuller picture of the arrangement that led to the U.S. Justice Department seeking to drop corruption charges against him began to emerge.
The revelations came in part from the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, Danielle R. Sassoon, who resigned on Thursday rather than heed an order from Justice Department officials in Washington to drop the case. She accused Mr. Adams’s lawyers of negotiating for a dismissal in exchange for the mayor’s cooperation with President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
The lead prosecutor on the investigation, Hagan Scotten, announced his resignation as well, in a scathing, undated letter to Mr. Bove.
He wrote that any federal prosecutor “would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials.” He added that he expected Mr. Bove would “eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”
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