On Friday, the Division of Justice urged Choose Ho (SDNY) to dismiss the indictment towards Eric Adams with out prejudice. DOJ has apparently submitted underneath seal a collection of communications to and from unnamed former DOJ officers. Let’s simply say these emails and letters don’t put the officers in the perfect mild. Right here, I wish to deal with one change particularly:
Equally, prior to creating the general public declare that solely a “coward” or “idiot” would signal the Movement, a recently-resigned AUSA from the SDNY prosecution crew (AUSA-1) wrote the next concerning the letter that SDNY filed with the Court docket on January 22, 2025: “[U.S. Attorney-1] clearly has political ambitions, and I believe suggesting we doubt that simply prices us credibility.” . . .
A separate change of textual content messages starting on November 8, 2024 illustrates why AUSA-1 was later keen on utilizing public filings to ship messages to President Trump. Simply days after the 2024 election, in response to a textual content message asking if it was “time” for AUSA-1 to “sit down on the bench,” AUSA-1 responded: “Acquired to convict Adams earlier than I can take into consideration the rest.” Ex. D. . . .
On November 8, 2024, AUSA-1 acquired a message with the next query: “You suppose it is time to sit on the bench? Lol.” Ex. D. AUSA-1’s response included, “Acquired to convict Adams earlier than I can take into consideration the rest.” Id. . . .
It’s thus obvious from the context that, simply as AUSA-1 hoped to convict Mayor Adams because the final notch in his belt earlier than he took a “seat on the bench,”
U.S. Lawyer 1 is Damien Williams. AUSA-1 is a Hagan Scotten, whom I wrote about right here. I do not suppose I had ever heard of Scotten earlier than, however he was apparently talked about as as nominee for the Second Circuit.
It’s true that people see their work in authorities service as a possible audition for a judicial appointment. Was the Eric Adams prosecution an audition? Or was the resignation the audition? It’s unimaginable to flee the audition entice, proper?
