A former lead prosecutor in Mayor Eric Adams' federal corruption case confirmed in a private text message that the former Manhattan U.S. lawyer Hezoner indicted was “plausible” in the bomb submission, the Justice Department revealed on Friday.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Deputy Attorney General Emile Bove quoted a text message from “ausa-1” (Hagan Scotten) in a filing to Dale Ho, Manhattan Federal Court Court, which argued that the case against Adam should be dismissed.
“[US Attorney-1] I think there is clearly political ambition and suggests we suspect that we are only sacrificing credibility,” Sconten allegedly wrote to his team in the Southern District in response to a letter from his predecessor Daniel Sasson on January 22nd, in response to a letter written by his predecessor, Damian Williams, about the Adams incident.
Scotten, former Republican Army Soldier According to the DOJ, being known as one of the office's up-and-coming conservatives, it was “pretty plausible” that Williams “had the political motivation to bring about this incident.”
“AUSA-1 explained that it wants to “distance” the SDNY prosecutor's team from us.
Lawyer-1,'s enough [Judge] Ho and [President] Trump will know we don't approve of what he did, but not to expand the scandal,” the submission continued.
Scotter could not be immediately contacted Friday night for comment.
He resigned last month rather than complying with the DOJ order to withdraw the case against Adams.
“Assistant U.S. lawyers will know that our laws and traditions do not allow us to use our prosecutors to affect other citizens, much fewer civil servants, who have been elected in this way,” Scotten wrote in his furious resignation letter.
“If in the president's ear the lawyer refuses to give him that advice, I would expect you to find someone who is a fool or a cowardly enough to submit your move,” he cried.
