A bribe? ‘Quid pro quo’? What would you call this?
PBS NewsBy: Larry Neumeister, Associated Press, Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press, & Eric Tucker, Associated PressFeb 13, 2025The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan resigned Thursday after refusing a Justice Department order to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Before quitting, Danielle Sassoon told President Donald Trump’s new attorney general that she was “confident” Adams had committed the crimes.Two senior Justice Department officials also resigned after the department leadership moved to seize control of the case. The acting deputy U.S. attorney general, former Trump personal lawyer Emil Bove, who had ordered the Adams case dropped, said in a letter accepting Sassoon’s resignation that the Justice Department in Washington would file a motion to drop the charges and bar “further targeting” of the Democratic mayor.[...]In her letter to Bondi, Sassoon accused Adams’ lawyers of repeatedly and explicitly offering what amounted to a “quid pro quo” during a meeting with the Justice Department last month. She wrote that the lawyers had offered the mayor’s assistance with the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement priorities if the case were to be dismissed.
The Justice Department is no longer about justice but rather serving as Trump's enforcer.
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