“This Is Some New and Very Dangerous Development.” Inside the Bloody Battle Over the DOJ’s Crown Jewel
Current and former SDNY colleagues of Emil Bove, Danielle Sassoon, and Hagan Scotten describe an office fighting to keep its ...
Paul Clement exposes DOJ deceit: Trump effort to enlist Adams in exchange for leniency fails
Lawyer Paul Clement (a former U.S. solicitor general with an impeccable legal, Republican and conservative pedigree) has ...
The New York Times23d
Adams’s Lead Prosecutor Quits Defiantly: ‘It Was Never Going to Be Me’
Hagan Scotten told Justice Department officials that he would not be party to a political prosecution. He was the latest in a succession of federal prosecutors to quit. By Jonah E. Bromwich ...
Justice Department Accuses Adams Prosecutors of Politicking and Hypocrisy
In a court filing, two top officials released prosecutors’ internal messages in a further attempt to discredit the case ...
Trump’s DOJ puts two more prosecutors on Eric Adams’ bribery case on leave
Andrew Rohrbach and Celia Cohen were marched out of the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District at the command of DOJ ...
DOJ argues texts from top NYC prosecutor shows Adams prosecution was politically motivated — but still won’t kill the case completely
DOJ lawyers argued that the case against Adams should be dismissed, but with the door left open to future prosecution.
Rebellion at Trump's DOJ Over Eric Adams Cheered by Conservative Attorney
President Donald Trump 's Department of Justice (DOJ) is grappling with mass resignations following the department's push to ...
New York Daily News22d
Hagan Scotten, lead Adams’ prosecutor, resigns telling DOJ only a ‘coward’ will follow order to drop case
Assistant U.S. Attorney Hagan Scotten, a highly regarded prosecutor in the Southern District of New York and decorated U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq, in his resignation letter to Trump’s ...
'All Roads' Lead to Permanent Dismissal of Eric Adams Case, Independent Counsel Advises
Former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement was tasked with offering an "adversarial" position to arguments from Adams' ...
The Law Society Gazette11d
Scotten-free of ‘fool’s’ errand
Scotten took against an instruction from the US deputy attorney general Emil Bove to drop fraud charges against New York ...
The Washington Post23d
Read prosecutor’s resignation letter in N.Y. Mayor Eric Adams’s bribery case
Read the resignation letter of Hagan Scotten, the lead prosecutor in Mayor Eric Adams’s federal corruption case. Scotten has quit over the Justice Department’s demand that the case be ...