Three Manhattan federal prosecutors resigned on Tuesday after saying the Trump administration had asked them to admit wrongdoing in New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s corruption case as a condition of their return.
All three prosecutors declined, saying they “will not confess wrongdoing when there was none.”
“The Department has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our
legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions from Washington. That is wrong,” they said in a letter to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
The Justice Department placed Assistant U.S. Attorneys Celia Cohen, Andrew Rohrbach, and Derek Wikstrom, along with former acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon, on administrative leave in February.
Sassoon, who replaced U.S. Attorney Damien Williams in the Southern District of New York,
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