The Trump Justice Department ended speculation last week with a bombshell memo to the U.S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, the fabled and famously independent SDNY, directing the office to “dismiss the pending charges” against Adams.

The memo from acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove criticized “the timing of the charges and more recent public actions by the former U.S. Attorney [Damian Williams] … that have threatened the integrity of the proceedings, including increasing prejudicial pretrial publicity that risks impacting potential witnesses and the jury pool.”

The Bove memo also noted that “the pending prosecution has unduly restricted Mayor Adams’ ability to devote full attention and resources to the illegal immigration and violent crime that escalated under the policies of the prior Administration.”

At the SDNY, the interim U.S. attorney, Danielle Sassoon, declined to follow Bove’s directive and resigned. So did the lead prosecutor in the case. In Washington, five members of the Justice Department’s public integrity unit, responsible for overseeing corruption cases, resigned. Bove responded to Sassoon’s resignation with a scathing letter charging her with “insubordination” and misconduct. Attorney General Pam Bondi brushed aside the resignations, and on Friday, the Justice Department filed a motion to dismiss the charges.

Read the full Washington Examiner article by JW’s Micah Morrison here: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3322634/behind-end-criminal-case-eric-adams/