Emil Bove, Game Master
For no particular reason. Here’s an easy-to-follow piece of advice.
If you don’t want to be called a Nazi, don’t act like a Nazi. Or Jigsaw.
Here’s the intro from Reuters:
A U.S. federal prosecutor agreed on Friday to file a motion to dismiss criminal corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams to spare other career staff from potentially being fired for refusing to do so, sources briefed on the matter told Reuters.
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove told the department’s career public integrity prosecutors in a meeting on Friday that they had an hour to decide among themselves who would file the motion, the sources said.
The volunteer was Ed Sullivan, a veteran career prosecutor, who agreed to alleviate pressure on his colleagues in the department’s public integrity section, two sources said.
Sullivan did not capitulate, someone familiar with the meeting told Reuters. He was coerced, and to his colleagues “a hero” who spared them.
So Bove set up one of those torture rooms from the Saw franchise, minus the blood. Or else the trolley problem, except the person who throws the switch to save five elects to be the one run over on the side track.
Original: McGeddon Vector: Zapyon (CC BY-SA 4.0)
More federal prosecutors have resigned under Trump over the Adams case than during Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre.
Fools and cowards
In addition to the stinging letter of resignation from Danielle Sassoon, the acting U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, the Washington Post reports that “Kevin Driscoll, a deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s criminal division, and John D. Keller, acting chief of the department’s Public Integrity Section” resigned in addition to three others from the Public Integrity Section.
Hagan Scotten, the Southern District’s lead prosecutor in the Adams corruption case, resigned Friday and sent his own stinging rebuke to his bosses in D.C. (Washington Post):
“[A]ny assistant U.S. attorney would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials, in this way,” he wrote.
“If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion,” Scotten wrote. “But it was never going to be me.”
What an abomination AG Pam Bondi is running.