The standoff between the Trump administration and Manhattan prosecutors over the New York mayor’s criminal case is sparking a crisis inside an internal Justice Department investigatory unit that’s long caused anxiety for career attorneys.
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove’s memo Thursday to resigning interim US Attorney Danielle Sassoon referred Manhattan’s now former chief prosecutor and two line attorneys to DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility for refusing to dismiss Eric Adams’ bribery charges. What happens next is bound to become the first of multiple tests of OPR’s half century of independence in reviewing prosecutors’ behavior, former department lawyers said.
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