A federal prosecutor today agreed to request the cessation of the prosecution against New York Mayor Eric Adams, in order for, he said, no other prosecutors’ career be fired because they refused to put the case in the file.

According to sources spoken to the Reuters agency, Deputy Minister of Justice Emil Bowub, at a meeting with all prosecutors of the Department of Public Transparency, said they had an hour at their disposal to decide who would submit the proposal.

The agency said he did not know the name of the prosecutor who agreed to do so, although the names of those who make a request are made public.

Six senior officials at the Ministry of Justice, including Manhattan Daniel Sassun’s head of the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office, resigned on Thursday, refusing to comply with Bowv’s order to file the prosecution against the mayor. Today, Deputy Prosecutor Hagan Skoten said he “absolutely agrees” with the decision of Sassun and resigned.

On Monday, the ministry ordered prosecutors to put the case in the file, arguing that by the prosecution of the mayor of corruption “they limited his ability (…) to focus his attention and resources on the fight against illegal immigration and his immigration. crime. “

Adams, who was elected with the Democrats, appeared to be laughing today on the FOX News conservative television network, accompanied by “border tsar” Tom Homan, who is responsible for the mass expulsion program. Yesterday, he had said he was ready to work more with the Trump government on the issue of deportations, though New York officially has a “refuge city” status, which provides for the limited cooperation of the local authorities with the federal agents involved in irregular migration. .

In her resignation letter, Sassun said she refuses to delete a case “for reasons that have nothing to do with her”, recalling that in the past she was an assistant to conservative judge Anthony Skalia, who passed away in 2016 and was a member of the US Supreme Court. .

“In no free regime can we allow the government to use the carrot of lifting the prosecution or the whip of the threat of a new trial to motivate a heretical to support its political goals“, Hagan Skoten said in his own resignation letter.

Adams, coming from the right wing of the Democratic Party, was charged last September of bribery by Turkish citizens. He argued that he was innocent and refused to resign, saying that the judicial prosecutions were due to the disagreements he had with then -President Joe Biden on the issue of immigration. He then approached Donald Trump, without excluding his move to the Republican Party in order to claim a second term in the forthcoming municipal elections in November.

Politicians to the Left had asked the New York State Governor, Katie Hokul, to expel Adams.