Former federal prosecutors on Friday painted the directives of Main Justice to drop the prosecution of New York City Mayor Eric Adams as an attempt to bring the famously independent Southern District of New York to heel, as news broke that yet another high-ranking prosecutor in the office resigned.
“This is an attempt to bring the office to its knees,” said one Southern District alumnus of efforts by Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove to force the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office to dismiss the charges against Adams.
