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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/augieray/statuses/114004724940885695">Augie Ray (augieray@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 14:33:03 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@augieray" title="augieray@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/83153-48-20250303201148.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Augie Ray" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Augie Ray</a></section><article><p>“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”</p><p>An Assistant US DA resigns rather than agree to dismiss the charges against NY mayor Eric Adams. Adams apparently engaged in a quid pro quo with Trump to support Trump's immigration policies within the city in exchange for the dismissal of the serious charges against him.</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4574397#notice-8955691">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-02-16T14:33:03+09:00" title="Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 14:33:03 JST">about 2 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@augieray/114004724940885695" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@augieray/114004724940885695">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4147352">BY EMAILRe: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH)
Mr. Bove,I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S. Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General.In short, the first justification for the motion—that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys—is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse. No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy
objectives.(Edited for length) I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York.Yours truly,Hagan Scotten
Assistant United States Attorney
Southern District of New York</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/004/715/446/991/420/original/54121c53c80a1d66.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/004/715/446/991/420/original/54121c53c80a1d66.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Augie Ray (augieray@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 14:33:03 JST Augie Ray
“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”
An Assistant US DA resigns rather than agree to dismiss the charges against NY mayor Eric Adams. Adams apparently engaged in a quid pro quo with Trump to support Trump's immigration policies within the city in exchange for the dismissal of the serious charges against him.
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1. BY EMAIL Re: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH) Mr. Bove, I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S. Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General. In short, the first justification for the motion—that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys—is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse. No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives. (Edited for length) I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me. Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. Yours truly, Hagan Scotten Assistant United States Attorney Southern District of New York
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