An ‘impossible position’: What’s next for SDNY after order to drop Eric Adams case

Carrie H. Cohen spoke to City & State NY about Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove’s memo directing the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York to drop its corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The memo noted that the Department of Justice arrived at its directive without assessing the evidence or legal theories involved, but rather based on two other considerations. 

Carrie stated, “As a prosecutor, your duty is to follow the facts wherever they lead, without fear or favor, and if the facts fit with the United States Code – the federal criminal law – and you believe you can prove a case beyond a reasonable doubt, to bring that case to a grand jury. And the memo explicitly is directing the Southern District to make a prosecutorial decision not based on any of those principles.”

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