Lawyers push for charges to be dropped over leaked internal DoJ correspondence about the New York mayor<\/p>\n
The New York City<\/a> mayor, Eric Adams<\/a> asked a federal judge to toss out the corruption case against him on Wednesday, alleging prosecutorial misconduct, even as the justice department seeks dismissal of the charges<\/a> on the Democrat\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n In papers filed in Manhattan federal court, his lawyers alleged that the misconduct occurred when the government publicly leaked a letter that the then US attorney Danielle Sassoon wrote to the attorney general, Pam Bondi, explaining why charges should not be dropped.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lawyers push for charges to be dropped over leaked internal DoJ correspondence about the New York mayor The New York City mayor, Eric Adams asked a federal judge to toss out the corruption case against him on Wednesday, alleging prosecutorial misconduct, even as the justice department seeks dismissal of the charges on the Democrat\u2019s behalf. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}