Lake Travis ISD voters cast their ballots for place 3, 4 and 5 on the board of trustees in a May 3 election. (Grace Dickens/Community Impact) Today’s Paper#masthead-section-label, #masthead-bar-one { display: none }Eric Adams Corruption Case By Michael Rothfeld A letter from Emil Bove III, acting deputy attorney general, accepting the resignation of Danielle R. Sassoon over her refusal to drop the case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York Sassoon to task for failing to obey a direct order to end a prosecution he says was political weaponization and for failing to adhere to policy priorities of President Trump Download the original PDF Bove adopts an aggressive tone from the start in response to her defiance of his orders He says she "lost sight of the oath" she had taken by thinking she can make her own decisions independent of President Trump and the attorney general's priorities Bove reiterates that the Adams case was "a politically motivated prosecution" — after Sassoon accused him of dropping it for political reasons 2 Bove says the line prosecutors in the case will now be investigated because they also refused to obey his orders They will continue to be paid but can't go into federal offices or use their laptops 3 The Adams case is being removed from the U.S attorney's office of the Southern District of New York and being transferred to Washington five prosecutors in the Public Integrity unit there also resigned rather than drop the case 4 Bove says he exhaustively reviewed the case and considered the issues before ordering it dropped responding to Sassoon's claims in her own letter that the process was rushed and that she was left out of it 5 This "weaponization" finding Bove refers to here seems ripped from Trump's own rhetoric about the indictments brought against him which he has said without evidence were political there is no evidence that has been made public to support Bove's finding that the Adams case was brought for political reasons was "rushed" before last year's presidential election because the former U.S and Sassoon has said Williams's involvement in the Adams case was "minimal." sounding more like a defense lawyer for Adams than a top Justice Department official demeans the process by which a grand jury indicted the mayor saying they had done so based on a "one-sided" and "partial" presentation of the evidence calling Sassoon's discussion of the values of Antonin Scalia as "dubious." He then finds a quote from Scalia to support his own argument about political weaponization but now calls the Southern District prosecutors' work "extremely problematic" and then accuses them of "insubordination." 10 Bove defends his argument that Adams can't be prosecuted because it inhibits his cooperation with Trump's immigration crackdown calling it an "unacceptable" situation that "directly endangers the lives of millions of New Yorkers." 11 Bove denies Sassoon's accusation that he engaged in a quid pro quo to drop the Adams case in exchange for the mayor's help with Trump's immigration crackdown who previously said he was not ordering the case dropped based on the actual evidence saying it was based on "extremely aggressive" factual and legal theories Though he has said the case could be revived later the defense would surely seize on these statements if prosecutors attempted to do so 13 Bove says the investigation of the prosecutors on the case will examine "questionable" moves that their team made He suggests that this team had duplicitously tried to bait Adams into making incriminating statements before charging him 14 Matthew Podolsky is the prosecutor taking over for Sassoon now Hagan Scotten and Derek Wikstrom were the line prosecutors on the case who have now been placed on leave and are under investigation Sports reporter in LondonPublished: Invalid Date EDOARDO BOVE made an emotional return to Roma this evening six months on from collapsing during a match While on loan at Fiorentina, the 22-year-old suffered a cardiac arrest during a match against Inter Milan and was rushed to hospital Bove was subsequently discharged 12 days later The midfielder has since been recovering and has signalled his intention to return to action next season Born in the Italian capital, Bove came through the ranks at boyhood club Roma The Italy Under-21 international joined Fiorentina on loan last summer and remains contracted to Roma until 2028 While still not back in action, the homecoming hero travelled with his team-mates to the match and was met with a brilliant response. Bove was visibly moved during a rapturous reception from Roma's Curva Sud. While a banner read: "Edoardo, don’t give up, keep dreaming." Bove signalled his intention to return to action The star said: "I know that this is a temporary condition "I still have a few (medical) visits to do the doctors have to cross-reference all of the data." On how his defibrillator could affect his career, given that they are banned in Serie A "Abroad, yes, (it is possible to play) practically everywhere. Football is too important for me Serie A's defibrillator rule led to Christian Eriksen leaving Inter Milan, with the Dane initially returning to action with Brentford before signing for Manchester United Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. 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All rights reserved playMarcotti on Edoardo Bove: He'll undergo more tests (1:31)Gab Marcotti gives an update on Edoardo Bove's health after collapsing during Fiorentina's match against Inter in the Serie A Fiorentina midfielder Edoardo Bove has had successful surgery to implant a removable heart starter device following his recent collapse during a Serie A match Bove, who collapsed on the pitch during Fiorentina's home game with Inter Milan on Dec will have the operation on Tuesday which is part of the medical protocol before he can be discharged from hospital "Edoardo contacted the club a few minutes ago and in his own words he informed us that he is fine and that he will have to continue the post-operative process before being discharged from the hospital in the next few days," Fiorentina said in a statement The Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) a type of pacemaker that can prevent fatal cardiac arrest by delivering a shock to restore a normal heart rhythm Once all the results of the medical tests carried out on the 22-year-old over the past few days are in Bove will be able to decide whether to have the device removed which would allow him to return to the Italian top flight Denmark's Christian Eriksen was unable to continue playing for Inter Milan after being fitted with an ICD following a cardiac arrest during a European Championship match in 2021 and he later joined Brentford after the Serie A club terminated his contract Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent A perspective from the decidedly conservative Ed Whelan UPDATE: A short follow-up post from Whelan Get a daily brief of the most important stories and trends every weekday morning when you subscribe to Reason Roundup Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Eugene Volokh is the Thomas M Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA School of Law his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value" Lake Travis ISD voters cast their ballots for place 3 4 and 5 on the board of trustees in a May 3 election You’re presiding over the Eric Adams case, that of his co-conspirator Erden Arkan, and have gotten notice of another co-conspirator, Mohamed Bahi as a related case (meaning that Bahi is likely supposed to plead guilty before you in coming days — what was intended as a last step before superseding Adams with obstruction) the only things before you are the Nolle Prosequi request and the withdrawal motion Even beyond the question of whether you grant the request to dismiss without prejudice (Bove’s ask) you dismiss with prejudice (perhaps the easiest and most legally justifiable thing to do) Four documents pertaining to this blow up (in addition to the ones filed before Judge Ho) were released publicly last week Here’s the purpose they ostensibly serve: All four of them weigh in on two key paragraphs that made it into the Nolle Prosequi letter: the two stated reasons for dismissing the case against Adams which look like this in the dismissal request: In connection with that determination and directive the Acting Deputy Attorney General concluded that dismissal is necessary because of appearances of impropriety and risks of interference with the 2025 elections in New York City The Acting Deputy Attorney General reached that conclusion based on review of a website2 maintained by a former U.S Attorney for the Southern District of New York and an op-ed published by that former U.S the Acting Deputy Attorney General also concluded that continuing these proceedings would interfere with the defendant’s ability to govern in New York City which poses unacceptable threats to public safety and related federal immigration initiatives and policies The Acting Deputy Attorney General reached that conclusion after learning Adams has been denied access to sensitive information that the Acting Deputy Attorney General believes is necessary for Adams to govern and to help protect the City Public comments from Damian Williams that barely mention Adams create an appearance of impropriety and the prosecution would interfere with Adams’ ability to govern New York which Bove suggests (by citation to two of Trump’s immigration crackdown Executive Orders) consists primarily in chasing migrants the other letters are not formally before Ho (yet) But Ho has presumably read Hagan Scotten’s take on these two excuses which labels the first as a pretext and the second as coercion the first justification for the motion—that Damian Williams’s role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence attorneys is so weak as to be transparently pretextual 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 While it may be the case that the Biden Administration had limited sharing of classified information with Adams after his indictment for allegedly taking undeclared gifts from a foreign government [!!!] that’s entirely the prerogative of the President as Trump has made clear with his hasty grant of security clearance to people manifestly unsuited and his festival of security clearance removals since Pretty nutty that Bove says that Eric Adams can’t be prosecuted because it means he can’t see sensitive information when Trump has arbitrarily withheld that very same sensitive information from New York’s Attorney General and the District Attorney Ho can easily dismiss Bove’s first rationale — the appearance of impropriety — because (as Sassoon noted) he already did, in a ruling on one of Adams (and Elon Musk) attorney Alex Spiro’s serial claims that the government was leaking grand jury information Mayor Adams submitted a letter accusing the former U.S Attorney for the Southern District of New York of violating Local Criminal Rule 23.1 through statements made in an op-ed published on January 16 and on his “new website.” See Letter The Mayor states that this evidence “should be considered by the Court when ruling on Mayor Adams’s Renewed Motion for an Evidentiary Hearing and for Sanctions Including Dismissal.” Id Having reviewed the submission and the evidence referenced within it the Court concludes that it does not change the Court’s analysis Williams’s op-ed itself nor the media it incorporates by reference so much as allude to the grand jury proceedings that led to Mayor Adams’s indictment let alone disclose protected information from those proceedings Rule 6(e) is not implicated by the materials and they do not substantiate Mayor Adams’s claim that the Government has disclosed grand jury information in violation of the Rule.5 5 Although Mayor Adams does not request relief under Local Rule 23.1 the op-ed does not contain any statements that run afoul of the Rule’s prohibitions Williams provides hyperlinks to several prosecutions brought during his tenure as U.S including those of federal and state elected officials the majority of the statements in the oped that Mayor Adams claims are problematic concern New York State rather than New York City politics Williams’s statements that “[t]he ability to raise obscene sums of money for a campaign is precisely the wrong bottleneck to elected office,” and that “[i]t reeks of pay-to-play corruption and is offensive to most New Yorkers But those sentences are found in a paragraph lamenting the ability of candidates “to raise money from individuals or entities with business before the state,” opining that “[t]he state’s new matching funds program is woefully inadequate,” and arguing in favor of “a truly transformative public financing system for state elections They do not appear to be directed at New York City politics generally or at this case specifically There is one sentence in the op-ed stating that “[t]he public reporting alone paints a picture” that “America’s most vital city is being led with a broken ethical compass,” id which could plausibly be read to be a reference to Mayor Adams (among others) “do[es] not cross the line drawn by [Local] Rule 23.1 in the sense that [it] do[es] not constitute opinions as to the Defendant[’s] guilt and [is] not otherwise the type of statement[] proscribed by the rule.” United States v Nor does the statement “go[] beyond the public record.” Local Rule 23.1(b) “[i]t is essential that prosecutors respect both the power of their words and their office and ensure that their public comments are carefully tailored solely to further valid law enforcement interests and to steer far clear of violating a defendant’s fundamental right to a fair trial.” Id Bove is telling a judge he has to dismiss an indictment because Bove asserts as true something that Ho has already said is not true treat Bove’s second excuse — Adams’ need to do his job to keep NYC safe from migrants — with a presumption of regularity Unless and until those other letters alleging this is a quid pro quo come before him did more than rebut Bove’s thin pretexts twice by function — citing Judge Ho’s treatment of Spiro’s serial claims of leaks and his specific focus on Williams’ actions (linked above) and reviewing how he had granted Adams’ own request with regards to trial timing predicting that he would do a “searching inquiry” on this case appears likely to conduct a searching inquiry in this case Judge Ho stressed transparency during this case specifically explaining his strict requirements for non-public filings at the initial conference And a rigorous inquiry here would be consistent with precedent and practice in this and other districts In support, she cited this admonition from Ho in response to seeming attempts to communicate directly with chambers last fall and in the process hide public court hearings if there are requests to change a certain date I’ll only consider it if you explain why there’s good cause in a single submission for a change in the date I just want to make sure that counsel understands that and see if there are any questions from counsel as to those instructions THE COURT: One other guideline that I want to hit which is with respect to the presumption of public access to documents Now I understand there may be CIPA issues involved in this case and we’ll take those as they come but I just want to remind counsel that there’s a presumption of public access to judicial documents and this is obviously a case of significant public interest file in redacted or sealed form under the local rules things like personal identifying information I expect requests for redaction of documents to be narrowly tapered And just to go over the rules here for the procedures if it’s necessary to file a sealed or redacted document you have to file a letter motion seeking to redact or seal that document specifying the reasons for such sealing or redaction and citing authority that those reasons can justify overcoming the presumption of public access and then file their own redacted documents under seal which will remain temporarily sealed until the Court resolves the motion to redact or seal the documents file a redacted version of those documents on the public docket So Sassoon cited “the Court” several times to lay out aspects of the record that Bove got wrong remember that you have ordered both parties in this case to make all documents public “acknowledged previously in writing” that there was no quid pro quo And there are all the letters that are public but not formally before him Judge Ho may demand all that if and when he begins to look closely But there’s another document that is missing Bove’s Nolle Prossequi motion describes that Adams has consented to dismissal Defendant Eric Adams has consented in writing to this motion and agreed that he is not a “prevailing party” for purposes of the Hyde Amendment but Bove had something in writing on Friday Bove specifies that Adams must consent in writing to dismissal without prejudice the defendant’s consent makes it significantly more likely for courts to grant motions to dismiss under Rule 48(a) the court should ordinarily presume that the prosecutor is acting in good faith and dismiss the indictment without prejudice.”) But Adams’s consent— which was negotiated without my office’s awareness or participation—would not guarantee a successful motion given the basic flaws in the stated rationales for dismissal at 116-17 (declining to “rubber stamp” dismissal because although defendant did not appear to object “the court is vested with the responsibility of protecting the interests of the public on whose behalf the criminal action is brought”) Seeking leave of court to dismiss a properly returned indictment based on Mr Bove’s stated rationales is also likely to backfire by inviting skepticism and scrutiny from the court that will ultimately hinder the Department of Justice’s interests the court is unlikely to acquiesce in using the criminal process to control the behavior of a political figure And that may be one of the most important details in Sassoon’s letter to Bondi: Bove negotiated the key point of leverage dismissal without prejudice with the stated expectation that DOJ will revisit things if and when Adams is reelected in November to use his early admonition about public filings “to conduct a searching inquiry in this case,” she suggested that Bove was skirting that earlier admonition Dale Ho likely didn’t need Sassoon’s invitation and doesn’t need to first find a way to adopt this correspondence to the public docket Because Bove insanely submitted a request to dismiss the indictment without the most important piece of the paperwork January 31: Meeting at which someone from SDNY took notes Monday, February 10: Bove letter to Sassoon (addressed as Acting US Attorney) Wednesday, February 12: Sassoon letter to Pam Bondi Thursday, February 13: Bove letter to Sassoon February 13 or 14: Hagan Scotten resignation letter Friday, February 14: Nolle Prosequi letter submitted by Acting Criminal Division Chief Antoinette Bacon and AUSA Edward Sullivan Appreciate you driving into the weeds per usual Because my brain is broken I wonder would the 3rd Amendment prohibits Trump from storing classified material in Eric Adams bathroom if Trump can deputize Walt Nauta and kid rock into security clearance he can do it with a foreign agent like Adams too unfriendly Is this behavior egregious enough to invite the kind of sanctions that Ed so powerfully argued in favor of As I was linking the precedents Sassoon cited I came to believe that really they don’t help her that much The reality is no judge has succeeded in forcing USG to prosecute someone they don’t want to prosecute What Ho can do is force maximal transparency and maybe ensure that NYS can prosecute as much of this as is feasible He certainly can tee up an interesting mandamus fight like Emmet Sullivan’s (though understand the political shitstorm against Ho specifically will be epic) He might find ways to disqualify Emil Bove from appearing in SDNY But there’s almost no way to ensure that Adams be prosecuted Dismissal with prejudice would seem the best possible outcome It would lift the Sword of Damo-Trump hanging over Adams meaning that his further anti-migrant actions would be on him he will likely continue “collaborating” (as he told Fox viewers on an appearance with Homan) especially given this extended education in contra-legal sausage-making I’d be surprised if he runs for re-election It would seem that potential future federal obstruction charges would continue to hang over Adams’ head even if the current case is dismissed [Moderator’s note: see your comment at 9:56 am ET “He [Adams] has no known campaign office or website …hasn’t appeared in any candidate forums And he may not qualify for any city-funded matching-funds to help his campaign he might have to give $10 million back to the Campaign Finance Board with his 2021 fundraising under scrutiny by city and federal investigators.” Would a dismissal with prejudice preclude a NYS action under the Supremacy Clause Unless Alvin Bragg and/or Tish James can find charges untouched by the federal case’s evidence (and remember Turkey is a foreign power -> feds first) the dismissal with prejudice will wipe out everything It will also toss the Adams grenade back into Hochul’s lap Replying to ernesto1581: Thank you for that information He can become one more of Trump’s “Democrat” tokens shiny objects like RFKJ and Tulsi to wear on a charm bracelet as yet another dominance display when GOP congress folk murmur about “rookie mistakes.” or most of that reason that no judge had succeeded in forcing the Government to prosecute someone they don’t want to is that the Government hasn’t moved to dismiss for such blatantly corrupt purposes before (recent memory) Would the superseding indictment be part of the maximal transparency that Ho could force THe dismissal of Flynn’s case was epically corrupt you say you suspect that Bove’s reference to Sassoon agreeing in writing that there was no quid pro quo pertained to something prior to the Jan My own suspicion was that this was a reference to the Feb 3 communication noted in fn1 of Bove’s Feb in that case Bove would be significantly stretching the previous characterization in which Sassoon agreed that Bove did not offer a quid pro quo on Jan which of course does not preclude that a quid pro quo has now been consummated Please use the SAME USERNAME and email address each time you comment so that community members get to know you You attempted to publish this comment as “Halfassedsteve” triggering auto-moderation; it has been edited to reflect your established username Please check your browser’s cache and autofill; future comments may not publish if username does not match thanks for reminding me about that–I meant to include that above My brain wouldn’t work at all without this site A criminal hiring criminals with a revolving door of corruption but has a hearing date been set on the dismissal request maybe from Tim Miller’s podcast w/ Andrew Weissmann that Bove met with Adams’ team much earlier with an intent to guide Adams and his counsel how best to proceed through the case the timeline may need to shift a bit back to before Trump was inaugurated You attempted to publish this comment as “Kevin”; it has been edited to reflect your established username He is not immune from liability for his allegedly criminal acts nor from the govt’s prosecution for them even if it somehow interferes with the conduct of his duties Stopping him from abusing his power when conducting his duties may be the point That Bove goes there says a lot about who’s pushing this dismissal and how corrupt it is Bove seems to be obviously scapegoating for Trump when he demands that Sassoon do what she can to restore Adams’s security clearance that’s entirely within the president’s power to withhold or restore Bove seems to be engaged in garden variety file padding inventing tasks Sassoon has no power to do and using her failure to do them as his rationale for firing her As someone with a decent amount of experience with public sector interim roles I knew we were in troubled waters when Sassoon spoke up You breathe wrong and they can revoke an interim assignment That she almost certainly was a competitive candidate for the permanent position and still spoke up from the least “safe” place she could be as a federal employee was proof enough to me before reading any documents that something was rotten in Denmark She’s becoming something of a Rock Star Maybe like Patrick Fitzgerald during the Valerie Plame scandal 20 years ago Wouldn’t all that “insubordination” be cause Bove certainly seems (or seemed) to think so insubordination would be used to dismiss someone for cause But when you know the insubordination is fake you need to buttress your argument any way you can The presumption of regularity courts give to submissions by the federal executive is a judicial construct a rule of deference not founded on statute law It is “less a rule of evidence than a general working principle.” “Substantial evidence” is required to overcome the presumption Given the regularity with which Pam Bondi’s DoJ is lying It would cause havoc and a lot of extra time and paperwork but less damage than Trump-Bondi’s DoJ is doing An article about of the non-statutory basis for the presumption is below which includes a link to the author’s longer law review article https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/history-taxonomy-and-qualified-defense-presumption-regularity writing in National Review (*not* a liberal rag) has his own mounting concerns with Bondi’s DOJ calling out the “Weaponization” force for being a political tool And contains this extraordinary proposition “If AG Bondi ever wondered whether her weaponization directive would itself be turned into a weapon for James she might have consulted the trio of Trump defense lawyers who’ve been named to top DOJ positions and Emil Bove would likely have explained to the AG that in lawfare a defense lawyer’s best friend is documentary evidence of the government’s partisan political motives Which is more than ironic given Bove’s mishandling of the Adam’s debacle including the revelation of the hamfisted attempt to conceal evidence of his conduct of a crucial meeting concerning his corrupt manipulation of Adam’s McCarthy is engaged in laying the blame on Bondi because the lawfare shows signs of unraveling and not because he is particularly concerned by the ethical failures exposed but more because more competent exponents of lawfare would not be exposed so easily and he recognises the need for a scapegoat — and has decided Bondi is it I had predicted the significantly less telegenic–and recently more exposed–Emil Bove as the most likely scapegoat for those (like McCarthy) on board with the program but unhappy with its public-facing pratfalls She projects a certain lack of confidence (probably because she must know what she’s overseeing is a load of crap) If there’s a pile-on effect among the intelligentsia or what passes for intelligentsia among the New Republic crowd Trump’s spidey sense will pick up that she’s a “loser” and she’ll be gone I don’t see the dream of a tight ship at DOJ being realized This follows a quotation from Ho ruling (docket #103 22 Jan 22 2025) which relates to Williams “impropriety issue” (raised by defense in #99 and rebutted by S.D.N.Y #102 signed by Hagan Scotten on behalf of Danielle Sassoon) is not merely despite and in the face of the ruling by Ho but necessarily involves a disavowal of the position of the U.S as represented to the court by Hagan Scotten (and Danielle Sassoon) in arguments which had persuaded the court to rule as it did because Bove not only necessarily disavows it but also of necessity must have an explanation which has satisfied him of the following : “[whatever Williams said is beside the point and there’s no remedy against the Government for his comments] It would seem to me that given the state of the record on the docket Ho is entitled to to have it supplemented by all the documents which have been made public concerning the change of stance of the U.S and a full explanation so he can determine for himself and afresh who has misled him and when they did it The NYC Mayor’s Office has a First Deputy Mayor and about a half-a-dozen other Deputy Mayors Are none of them able to pick up the slack if Adams can’t do his job Implying that the Mayor himself (or herself) is essential for anything just seems absurd to me I’m sure they have protocols in place as to who takes over if the Mayor can’t handle all of his (or her) job duties So at what point will Kathy Hochel remove him And will T’s pardon come too fast for her to do that I hope none of what I typed comes to pass unless it involves Bove losing his law license I would have thought that Horchul would be well advised to keep her powder dry until Judge Ho does whatever he is going to do There is a chance that Ho is going to criticize people involved and any such criticism will be grist to Horchul’s mill Trump isn’t going to pardon until after the dismissal is dealt with Why on earth would Trump pardon Adams until he’s wrung out of him all the cooperation he can But pardon or not is irrelevant to anything Horchul needs to consider My guess is that Governor Hochul will wait for Judge Ho to have his hearing to air out all of the dirty laundry (i.e Bove must produce the written Adams deal since he said he had it in writing as well as the updated GJ evidence Sassoon refers to for the superseding indictment) and Hochul would then remove Adams for selling out NYC by unilaterally refusing to uphold the law on sanctuary Since it will all be in writing in court filings and rulings (I would expect Ho to comment on the quality of the evidence as well) Hochul will be able to stop some of the racism charges coming her way (looking at you so it is as an objective review as one can get about Adams So willing to throw away legal norms and critical thinking skills for a half-wit moron like Donald Trump people will look back on this era and wonder how this mass hysteria arose that would propel such a mentally inconsequential man to rock star status Look at any College Republican club on any campus They are an arrogant self entitled minority usually noisy and in your face about being part of the elite A lot of aged Caucasian voters with a large BMI and with meager educational experience who promised to make said voter’s lives better and fix their unhappiness in life What does body mass index have to do with it?? Fat-shaming should have no place–anywhere otherizing them for personal characteristics over which they have little control* and lumping them into gross generalizations…Who has a long history of doing just that *I want to say “Trust me on this.” Those who think fat people should “just lose the weight” don’t know what the hell they’re talking about This situation is Trump quid pro quo typical: Cause indictment of accepting more than $100K in illegal contribulations and lavish trips from foreign nationals to go away in exchange for acquiescing to Trump’s immigration agenda This site's work is possible through readers' support The organization calls for a full investigation of reported misconduct by Bove who pushed for the dismissal of criminal charges in return for Adams’ political cooperation with the Trump administration nonpartisan watchdog American Oversight filed a disciplinary complaint asking New York authorities to investigate potential professional misconduct by acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove the Justice Department official who oversaw and directed the corrupt dismissal of criminal charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams The complaint sent to the Attorney Grievance Committee in New York outlines how Bove’s pursuit of the dismissal — reportedly achieved by threatening to fire subordinate attorneys and by claiming the dismissal was appropriate in light of Adams’ political cooperation with the Trump administration — appears to have violated several sections of New York’s rules governing attorney ethics and professional conduct “Letting an elected official off the hook for serious criminal charges in exchange for political support is textbook corruption and could be grounds for suspension of an attorney’s law license,” said American Oversight interim Executive Director Chioma Chukwu Bove is required to meet minimum standards of professional conduct but the overwhelming weight of evidence suggests he has failed to do so The rule of law isn’t a political trading card; it must be applied equally and uniformly and we urge the New York Attorney Grievance Committee to investigate and address Mr Bove’s actions before they become the norm at the U.S ‘Where the hell is the agreement we came to?’” Bove reportedly convened the entire Justice Department Public Integrity Unit giving them an hour for two lawyers to sign the motion for dismissal Approximately seven prosecutors in all eventually resigned with one senior member of the unit having signed the motion reportedly to shield his more junior colleagues The New York Rules of Professional Conduct and prosecutors and government lawyers in particular American Oversight’s complaint details the specific items within the Rules of Professional Conduct that Bove appears to have violated such as instances of dishonesty and misrepresentation with regard to his claim that the dismissal — reportedly in exchange for Adams’ political support — was appropriate and his specious assertion that the charges had been a result of the “weaponization of government” and therefore improper Bove’s actions constitute “conduct that is prejudicial to the administration of justice” by paving the way for new attempts at striking similar deals And by attempting to induce other lawyers to engage in unethical behavior he also appears to have violated the rule that lawyers should not “knowingly assist or induce another” to “engage in … conduct that adversely reflects on the lawyer’s fitness as a lawyer.” © 2024 Copyright American Oversight. Privacy Policy Today’s PaperNew York|Read the letter from Emil Bove accepting Danielle Sassoon’s resignationhttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/13/nyregion/memo-from-bove-1.htmlShare full articleAdvertisement Share full articleA letter from Emil Bove, acting deputy attorney general, accepting the resignation of Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney, over her refusal to drop the case against Mayor Eric Adams. A PDF version of this document with embedded text is available at the link below: Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Fiorentina midfielder Edoardo Bove is in a medically induced coma after collapsing on the field during his team's Serie A match at home to Inter Milan on Sunday Bove's teammates immediately called for medical help and both sets of players surrounded the 22-year-old while he was being treated before he was swiftly stretchered off to an ambulance near the pitch and taken to Careggi Hospital in Florence "Fiorentina and the Careggi University Hospital announce that the footballer Edoardo Bove .. is currently under pharmacological sedation and hospitalized in intensive care," Fiorentina said in a statement "The first cardiological and neurological tests performed have ruled out acute damage to the central nervous system and the cardio-respiratory system Edoardo Bove will be re-evaluated in the next 24 hours." Sky Italia reported that the player regained consciousness while he was in the ambulance and was managing to breathe on his own Bove's parents and his girlfriend have arrived at the hospital along with Fiorentina coach Raffaele Palladino and most of his teammates as well as club directors and the city's mayor Fiorentina fans have also gathered at the hospital The incident happened in the 16th minute of the match Bove apparently bent down to tie the laces on his boot before he suddenly dropped to the ground Fiorentina players were distraught on the field and were comforted by staff members as well as Inter players Several were openly sobbing before the teams filed off the field The Italian league match was immediately halted The score at the time of Bove's collapse was 0-0 Inter chairman Giuseppe Marotta stated that postponing the match was an easy decision all the players and the referee worked together to help and it was a spontaneous decision to abandon the game," he told Sky Sport Italia Support for Bove poured in from other Serie A clubs "We all are with you Edoardo!" Juventus posted on X where league leaders Napoli said: "Come on Edoardo It is the second incident this year of a player collapsing during a Serie A match. It happened to Roma defender Evan Ndicka during his team's match at Udinese in April Information from Reuters and The Associated Press was used in this story a dedicated pathologist and beloved teacher and mentor who gave more than 55 years of service to Cincinnati Children’s becoming the oldest and longest-serving active member of the medical staff He collaborated until the end with fellow physicians on novel solutions for rare and complex pediatric disorders Bove contributed greatly to the field of pathology Through constant daily participation in clinical practice reviewing and diagnosing many thousands of cases he played a significant role in establishing pediatric pathology as a recognized international medical specialty He was lead or co-author of more than 220 peer-reviewed papers published in major medical journals played critical roles in developing effective diagnostics and treatments for Reye’s syndrome and Wilms’ tumor was elected president of the Society for Pediatric Pathology in 1990 and served tirelessly on numerous committees and editorial boards He was interim director of the Department of Pathology for four years from 1995-1999 and enjoyed open collaboration and friendship with his colleagues “He was a great mentor, friend and passionate pathologist who went way beyond what was expected when contributing to patient care,” said Ranga Ranganathan, MD “He was full of life and innovative ideas at every stage of his career and his zeal and enthusiasm was infectious He will be sorely missed by his colleagues I have lost a wonderful mentor and adviser.” Bove was surrounded by respect for the practice of medicine and the importance of higher education and science Three of his mother’s brothers were also MDs He earned his MD from the University of Buffalo’s medical school where his father and three uncles had earned theirs He was president of his medical school class and graduated in 1961 he served in the Army Medical Corps as a captain and assistant chief Anatomical Pathology at Walter Reed Hospital He joined Cincinnati Children’s in 1968 and thrived earning admission to the Sigma Chi scientific research honor society in 1966 and a full professorship in Pathology and Pediatrics at UC College of Medicine in 1975 He also served as the chair of the Autopsy Committee for the College of American Pathologists In his biography on the Cincinnati Children’s website he wrote of himself: “Continuing a long history of collaborative clinical research within the Division of Pathology I focus on pathogenesis of childhood cancers liver disease and skeletal muscle disease in children and babies and I am always looking for opportunities to improve basic understanding of disease.” A memorial for Bove will be held Nov. 22 from 2-5 pm in Sabin Auditorium. Read more about him in this profile from September 2023 The Research Horizons blog features news and insights about the latest discoveries and innovations developed by the scientists of Cincinnati Children's Dismissal of case against Eric Adams reflects new directive for prosecutors to toe line on White House’s policies Emil Bove, the acting deputy attorney general, moving with ruthless efficiency last week to dismiss the corruption case against the New York mayor, Eric Adams appeared to reflect the new praxis at the justice department where Trump’s political agenda will guide prosecutorial decisions The department filed the motion to dismiss on Friday with the signatures of Bove and two trial attorneys – the public integrity section’s senior litigation counsel Edward Sullivan and the acting head of the criminal division Antoinette Bacon – that cemented the decision While the presiding US district judge Dale Ho has ordered an evidentiary hearing to examine the circumstances under which the charges were withdrawn including the protest resignation of the acting US attorney in Manhattan the case is widely seen as over in practical terms The move to force through the dismissal showed the new course that Bove is charting as the justice department’s number two official, implementing Donald Trump’s vision of the unitary executive theory, where the president directs the decisions of every agency. Read moreIn ordering the case be dropped, Bove wrote that “continuing these proceedings would interfere with the defendant’s ability to govern in New York City national security and related federal immigration initiatives and policies” to deport undocumented immigrants The memo made clear that aiding a mayor who wanted to help with the immigration crackdown outweighed continuing to bring bribery charges against a local mayor and the justice department in future will balance policy priorities against the merits of a case And Bove’s effort to press forward with the dismissal also reflected his determination to bring the justice department to heel after weathering resignations in protest from seven prosecutors that appeared to verge on insubordination according to people familiar with the situation the acting US attorney for the southern district of New York to slow-walk and refuse to drop the Adams case was seen as likely to upend the hierarchy of the department where the US attorney’s offices ultimately report to main justice in Washington Bove’s relentless approach to running the day-to-day operations of the department before Trump’s pick for deputy attorney general is confirmed by the Senate has drawn support from Trump personally according to a senior administration official Danielle Sassoon assistant US attorney for the southern district of New York Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty ImagesTrump barely blinked at the resignations and the White House more broadly has been quietly pleased because it means they can fill some senior positions at the justice department with loyalists without going through the trouble of more dismissals that could be challenged in court The justice department did not respond to a request to comment a former co-chief of the national security and international narcotics section at the US attorney’s office in Manhattan appeared sympathetic to Sassoon’s desire to continue the case she had brought two people familiar with the conversations said Bove himself has been no stranger to having to dismiss charges: he was once forced to pull the case against an Iranian banker after defense lawyers accused prosecutors under his supervision of withholding exculpatory evidence Free newsletterBig thinkers on what we can do to protect civil liberties and fundamental freedoms in a Trump presidency In at least one phone call before Bove formally moved to order the dismissal Sassoon was told the case was going to be reviewed by Trump’s political appointees once they were confirmed by the Senate and that she should drop the charges “without prejudice” in the chance that she was allowed to bring it back post-review But after Bove sent his instructions on Monday Bove and the justice department’s chief of staff telling Sassoon she needed to file the motion to dismiss by the close of business that day Bove saw that Sassoon had no intention of complying when there had still been no action on Wednesday and stopped taking calls. In the end, the action Sassoon did take was to write a scathing eight-page letter to the attorney general imploring her to allow the Adams case to continue The next steps occurred in quick succession: Bove wrote back to Sassoon saying her resignation was accepted and her deputies were also suspended for insubordination before transferring control of the case to the public integrity section at the justice department in Washington After the acting head of the criminal division, Kevin Driscoll, the acting head of the public integrity section, John Keller, and three deputies resigned, followed by the additional resignation of Sassoon deputy Hagan Scotten who criticized the “without prejudice” dismissal as a way to hold a sword of Damocles over Adams Bove summoned the roughly 20 prosecutors in the public integrity section for a 9.45am video call He told them that it had been a long week and that he wanted all of them to be able to move on according to two people who were on the call He told them he didn’t want to get anyone in trouble so he didn’t want to know who was opposed to signing the motion to dismiss – just that he needed two trial attorneys to attach their names because that was standard practice and because it was easier to have a team than being alone Within the hour deadline he gave the public integrity section agreed to volunteer to take the heat off his colleagues Bove added his own name to the motion as well because he was prepared to argue in court himself if necessary according to a person briefed on the matter We have the address for the funeral home & the family on file If you're not happy with your card we'll send a replacement or refund your money Robert T. 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Reporting by Aadi Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne Pietro Comuzzo sat on his haunches and cried Andrea Colpani pulled his jersey up and over his face Luca Ranieri and Rolando Mandragora were by the corner flag at the other end of the pitch The ambulance wouldn’t come onto the pitch at the Artemio Franchi and they didn’t understand why A stretcher had been rushed across to collect Edoardo Bove and take him to the Careggi University Hospital Moments earlier the 22-year-old Fiorentina midfielder had knelt down took a couple of laboured steps and then went back down to the floor Fiorentina and Inter’s players were momentarily contesting the decision to rule out Lautaro Martinez’s opening goal It was adjudged the ball had gone out of play when Denzel Dumfries launched it forward for Inter’s skipper.  As the match director in Lissone — Italy’s equivalent of Stockley Park — queued up the first replay to resolve the matter attention instead turned to the stricken Bove and the need for first aid making sure Bove’s airways weren’t blocked the two together have been instrumental in a seven-game winning streak in Serie A Another win against the champions on Sunday would have made it Fiorentina’s best run since 1960 But none of that mattered anymore as Bove lay on the ground The sand underneath the turf at the Franchi was why the ambulance driver did not pull alongside Bove on the pitch the surface still slick from a pre-game watering The fear was the ambulance might get stuck and leave Bove and the first responders stranded had already suspended the game for a medical emergency The crowd held its breath as Bove was ferried into the ambulance and sped across town to hospital While Fiorentina’s executives rushed to be by Bove’s side told Sky Italia: “I’d like to express our utmost sympathy to Fiorentina and the boy’s family Football is a community and when you go through experiences like this The decision to abandon the game was a spontaneous one on the part of the players ultras from the Franchi’s Curva Fiesole left a banner of support they were told: “Leave that where it is.” “God please,” the Fiorentina goalkeeper David de Gea posted on his X account Bove was in intensive care but a statement issued by Fiorentina offered some reassurance He had arrived in the emergency room in a stable condition “The initial cardiological and neurological examinations have ruled out acute damage to the central nervous system and cardiorespiratory system,” it explained Fiorentina’s owner Rocco Commisso was in constant contact with his executive team and the player’s family A service for him was held at the club’s state-of-the-art training ground and a villa on the premises dedicated to his memory.  While the league added the rescheduling of Fiorentina-Inter to its agenda and contemplated postponing Wednesday’s Coppa Italia tie “He’s better,” De Gea reassured reporters on his way out Bove had been woken up from sedation and extubated “He is currently awake and alert,” Fiorentina communicated in a second update on his condition Bove was even up for a video call with the rest of the team decided to train and prepare for the aforementioned cup game against Empoli so we’ll be playing on Wednesday,” said the club’s CEO Alessandro Ferrari “There’s the desire to get back to normal as soon as possible and thanks to the enthusiasm Edoardo showed “We told him all about them (the messages of support) Right now he keeps saying (in Roman dialect) “I think there is no longer the same enjoyment and happiness as there was before in kids playing soccer.” Bove made his own childhood dreams come true by breaking into the Roma team under Jose Mourinho It was his goal against Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen that clinched a place in the 2023 Europa League final His departure from Roma in the summer — on loan with an obligation to buy next summer for €11million (£9.1m/$11.5m) — was done with malincuore, great reluctance A consequence of the financial fair play rules the Italy Under-21 international represented much-needed pure profit to a club already under a strict UEFA settlement agreement To say it blew up in Roma’s face is an understatement set up a Moise Kean goal and scored in a 5-1 win over his old club in October It put him firmly in the running to earn a call-up to the senior national team squad for the November internationals only for Luciano Spalletti to make his Fiorentina team-mate Bove’s focus is on learning what provoked his health scare and making a full recovery Mandragora spoke for the dressing room when he posted on Instagram: “We’re waiting for you.”  (Top photo: Giuseppe Maffia/NurPhoto via Getty Images) James Horncastle covers Serie A for The Athletic. He joins from ESPN and is working on a book about Roberto Baggio. Follow James on Twitter @JamesHorncastle Fiorentina and Inter players had squabbled over a VAR check before the hosts’ midfielder suffered a cardiac arrest And then, it did not matter at all. Bove had not involved himself in the discussion, waiting in the far half of the pitch. He dropped to a knee for a moment, presumed to be tying a shoelace, but in fact using his hands to steady himself on the turf. After standing back up, he took a handful of steps then collapsed beside Hakan Calhanoglu. Read moreA football match became an afterthought turned to the dugouts and cried for assistance but recognition of the urgency of the situation spread immediately Players and staff ran in all directions: towards Bove Opponents who had quarrelled moments earlier now stood with arms around each other’s shoulders The only yelling inside the Stadio Artemio Franchi was from a group of players who could not understand why the ambulance had not entered the pitch leaving the vehicle in place while its crew rushed to tend to the player Bove was swiftly placed on a stretcher and taken to the ambulance and it has been widely reported that a defibrillator was used to restart his heart Bove was taken to the Careggi University Hospital and a statement released by Fiorentina on Sunday evening said he “was treated on the pitch following a loss of consciousness during the Fiorentina v Inter match [and] is currently under sedation and is hospitalised in intensive care “The Viola player arrived at the emergency department in stable hemodynamic conditions and initial cardiological and neurological tests have ruled out acute damage to the central nervous system and the cardio-respiratory system Bove will be re-evaluated in the next 24 hrs.” Inter’s Alessandro Bastoni (right) consoles Pietro Comuzzo of Fiorentina after Bove’s collapse at the Stadio Artemio Franchi Photograph: Xinhua/ShutterstockOn Monday morning journalist for the newspaper la Repubblica “He is lucid and responding to questions,” wrote Dovellini “There is no cerebral or cardiac damage.” Fiorentina posted later that Bove was “awake alert and oriented” and that diagnostic tests were ongoing The match was suspended by referee Daniele Doveri as the ambulance departed A decision was taken soon afterward that it would not resume on Sunday evening Players from both teams were visibly distraught Supporters stayed in the stands awaiting an announcement but the only concern was for Bove’s wellbeing died after a cardiac arrest in his hotel room before a game at Udinese by reading his name out after the starting XI on Sunday Fans continued their tradition of applauding for him in the 13th minute Milan 3-0 Empoli, Como 1-1 Monza, Cagliari 1-0 Verona Thank you for your feedback.Fiorentina have known too much tragedy in the last few years their chief executive Joe Barone also died following a cardiac arrest at the team’s hotel before a game at Atalanta Fans from the Stadio Artemio Franchi’s Curva Fiesole left a banner outside Bove’s hospital on Sunday night with the message “Florence is with you!” Relief at his ongoing recovery will be felt across the city and far beyond though it is too early to know what the prognosis will be for any eventual return to the pitch Bove had looked set to make this a breakout season A lifelong Roma fan and graduate of their academy the midfielder made 45 appearances for the Giallorossi last season but was deemed expendable this summer as the club spent close to €100m rebuilding the first-team squad to fit the vision of new technical director Florent Ghisolfi Free daily newsletterKick off your evenings with the Guardian's take on the world of football Fiorentina agreeing to a year’s loan with an obligation to make the deal permanent if certain performance criteria were met Bove described his decision to join the Viola as “a choice made by the heart because it was born from seeing the project that the directors proposed to me and the warmth I felt when I met them Bove is carried off the Stadio Artemio Franchi pitch Viola fans left a banner outside his hotel on Sunday: ‘Florence is with you!’ Photograph: Lisa Guglielmi/IPA Sport/ipa-agency.net/Shutterstock“The people of Florence also made me feel at home right away Which is no secondary consideration for someone like me who is leaving Rome for the first time.” Bove quickly became a fixture in the starting XI – lining up variously in the middle or on the left – making himself integral to a team that has performed far above expectations under new manager Raffaele Palladino Although yet to achieve his stated ambition of breaking into the senior Italy squad that objective appeared close after strong performances for the Under-21s though it is impossible to say with any certainty Eriksen was able to resume playing after being fitted with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator where playing with such a device is prohibited After achieving the highest possible score on his school-leaving tests he enrolled on an economics and management course at the Luiss Guido Carli University “I’m privileged,” he told Corriere dello Sport in September but university for me is about looking ahead to the future My football career will not go on forever and I want to be prepared for what comes after.” The hope must be that this is still a distant thought and that Bove will pursue his sporting dreams fully before moving on to the next adventure the greatest news is simply that these are questions we still have time to ask After a mob of Donald Trump's supporters violently stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Emil Bove led efforts by federal prosecutors in Manhattan to help the FBI aggressively investigate identify and arrest rioters from the New York region 2 official in President Trump's Justice Department He has used that perch to denounce the Capitol riot investigation and spearhead a purge of prosecutors — and potentially of FBI agents — who worked on Jan The disconnect between Bove's aggressive stance to hold rioters accountable for the Jan 6 assault and his current hostility around the investigation has troubled some former colleagues "At no point did I ever hear him or anybody else express concern about these investigations and these arrests that we were making," said Christopher O'Leary who was a top counterterrorism official in the FBI's New York field office at the time "We never heard any pushback from him or anybody in his office." The Department of Justice didn't immediately respond to questions about the disconnect between Bove's role in New York and his actions since entering the Department of Justice Bove was the co-chief of the terrorism and international narcotics unit at the U.S Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York he helped supervise all of the office's work related to the Capitol attack directing prosecutors to support the FBI in the investigation and overseeing efforts to obtain things like search warrants according to O'Leary and a former prosecutor who worked with Bove the former prosecutor said Bove never voiced any reservations about the riot investigation direct encouragement to the line prosecutors to aggressively pursue the investigation The person spoke on condition of anonymity in order to describe the office's internal dynamics As the unit co-chief, Bove also took part in weekly meetings of the Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York which gave him an overview of cases and operations in the New York region "were intimately involved in all of these cases and very knowledgeable of it [the investigation]." "I always had a good working relationship with him as a committed professional to our counterterrorism cases," O'Leary said But his view has changed in recent weeks in light of what Bove has done since moving into a top job in Trump's Justice Department "I'm really surprised and disappointed by his actions how he's pursuing FBI agents and employees who were conducting investigations in the same manner that they would have conducted any investigation," O'Leary said Bove left the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan about a year after the Capitol riot. He moved into private practice and joined Trump's legal defense team alongside Todd Blanche who has been nominated to serve as deputy attorney general at the Justice Department under Attorney General Pam Bondi Bove has been the acting deputy attorney general And in that role, over the past three weeks, he has imposed a series of personnel moves that have shaken the department and the FBI He has transferred several top career attorneys with decades of experience to a new office that handles immigration enforcement effectively pushing them out of the department He's also fired dozens of Capitol riot prosecutors at the U.S 6 prosecutors were brought in during the Biden administration to help handle the more than 1,600 Capitol riot prosecutions which was one of the largest investigations in Justice Department history Bove said hiring those prosecutors was a "subversive" step by the Biden administration and hampered the ability of the department to "faithfully implement" Trump's agenda On the FBI front, he has pushed out eight senior bureau officials and demanded the names of FBI agents who worked Jan touching off fears of possible mass firings at the bureau Bove has told the bureau that the list of names is needed in order to review the agents' conduct in light of an executive order Trump signed about ending the purported weaponization of the federal government "No FBI employee who simply followed orders and carried out their duties in an ethical manner with respect to January 6 investigations is at risk of termination or other penalties," Bove wrote in an email last week addressed to all FBI employees The only individuals who should be concerned "are those who acted with corrupt or partisan intent who blatantly defied orders from Department leadership or who exercised discretion in weaponizing the FBI." the FBI and acting Director Brian Driscoll ultimately provided a list of names of bureau employees to the Justice Department Driscoll has told the FBI workforce that he is one of the agents who worked Jan While Bove didn't work as a line prosecutor charging defendants he did supervise prosecutors doing the legal legwork on Jan 6 case: the arrest of Samuel Fisher in Manhattan according to the former prosecutor who worked with Bove in New York Driscoll participated in the arrest of Fisher who was ultimately sentenced to 120 days in prison for his activities at the U.S Bove was up late that night reviewing the legal paperwork to support the FBI The former prosecutor said that if a list of department attorneys who worked on Jan 6 cases was collected in the same way as the list of FBI agents was "Emil's name would surely be on that list as well." Become an NPR sponsor Edoardo Bove is on loan at Fiorentina from Roma. Giuseppe Maffia/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesFiorentina midfielder Edoardo Bove is no longer in intensive care and his recovery is progressing the general manager of the Italian Serie A club said on Wednesday Bove collapsed on Sunday during a home game against Inter Milan. The match was suspended after he was rushed to hospital in an ambulance The 22-year-old has been moved to a coronary care unit Alessandro Ferrari told Italian broadcaster Mediaset before his team was knocked out of the Italian Cup on penalties by Empoli We have to be patient and have respect for him He changed [hospital] wards so things are better," Ferrari said Collegiate PR | 200 Yard Back: 1:58.76; 200 Yard IM: 1:58.95; 400 Yard IM: 4:16.73 Best Finish: 3rd; Event: 400 Yard IM; Meet: January 21 Swimcloud Profile Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here Fiorentina has announced that Edoardo Bove is okay That’s the best possible news for everyone and it sounds like he’s out of the woods ACF Fiorentina has announced that Edoardo Bove, following an uneventful night, was awakened and extubated this morning. He is currently awake, alert and oriented. pic.twitter.com/plH78vHAxJ Yesterday, Bove suffered a severe medical episode and collapsed during the first half of Fiorentina’s much-anticipated clash with Inter Milan The players of both sides surrounded him to prevent cameras from seeing what was happening and the 22-year-old was quickly stretchered to an ambulance and rushed to the Careggi Hospital where he regained consciousness but was intubated as a precaution Bove is so young and even for a professional soccer player Seeing him wobble and go down like that was disturbing on a primal level and the fact that he seems to be okay is one we should celebrate It could’ve been much worse without the rapid response of the medical personnel and of Danilo Cataldi who immediately grabbed Bove’s tongue to keep his airway open His teammates were obviously distraught on the pitch with many shedding tears as the episode unfolded in front of them They moved en masse to the hospital shortly after the game was suspended to support Bove and were among the first to see him after he was able to speak this morning even as the well wishes come flying in on social media from all sides none of Fiorentina’s current players have commented Perhaps they don’t want to say anything yet and give their teammate his privacy Perhaps they’re too shaken up for Instagram it’s clear that none of them are ever going to forget this moment For a club that’s seen too many medical tragedies over the past few years the familiarity of the sensation of shock made it even worse It’s been less than 7 years since club captain Davide Astori passed away in his hotel room just ahead of a game against Udinese It’s been less than 9 months since Joe Barone suddenly passed away just before the team was scheduled to play Atalanta Fiorentina is scheduled to play Empoli in the Coppa Italia round of 16 on Wednesday it’s unclear if that game will be played on time The desolation reflected in the faces of Dodô and all the others may not be something they can shake off in a few brief days They deserve all the time they need to cope with this emotional deluge without having to clock in at work It’s way too early to speculate on when or if Bove will return to the pitch Bove, 22, was discharged from a hospital in Florence on Friday after having surgery to implant a defibrillator. The Italy under-21 player, who was back at Fiorentina's training ground Viola Park at the weekend with his teammates, wrote on Instagram: "The unpleasant episode that occurred during Fiorentina-Inter proved to me "I am truly grateful to belong to this world and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for the affection and closeness you have shown me I'm fine and that's the most important thing!" Bove, who spent two weeks in hospital has been overwhelmed by the messages of support and said he felt the "authentic spirit" of football throughout the ordeal the support from my teammates and opponents the closeness of the WHOLE world of football was something that gave me incredible strength and courage," he said "I felt surrounded by a positive energy that allowed me to remain calm not to feel the loneliness that is often present in this type of difficulty "I would like us all to commit ourselves not to forget the true essence of our sport not to let ourselves be overshadowed too much by its commercial side and not to take its authentic spirit for granted." Bove, who joined Fiorentina in August on a season-long loan from home club, AS Roma gave no indication as to when he will be able to return to play He ended his statement by saying: "See you soon.. the midfielder won't be able to play in Italy again once a defibrillator is fitted Bove’s submission signed as well by newly-confirmed Todd Blanche but not just for its inapt citation of Flynn that it should be dismissed because of an appearance of impropriety one of two made for dismissing the Adams case based on the Department’s conclusion that this prosecution reflects an improper weaponization of the criminal justice system which has given rise to “appearances of impropriety and risks of interference with the 2025 elections in New York City.” Mot But the balance of the passage relies entirely on his claim of weaponization, citing to Trump’s Executive Order making false claims that Biden politicized DOJ and eventually citing an appellate decision in the Blagojevich case that threw out those quid pro quos that involved trading of official positions but not those involving personal benefit (seemingly suggesting that Eric Adams would get no personal benefit from dismissal) the Department has exercised the capacious prosecutorial discretion that supports the Motion pursuant to the anti-weaponization policy articulated by President Trump on his first day in office entitled Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government sets forth the following policy: “It is the policy of the United States to identify and take appropriate action to correct past misconduct by the Federal Government related to the weaponization of law enforcement The express “purpose” of the policy is to “ensure accountability for the previous administration’s weaponization of the Federal Government against the American people,” which included conduct “oriented more toward inflicting political pain than toward pursuing actual justice or legitimate governmental objectives.” Id It cannot be denied that President Trump’s anti-weaponization policy is in the public interest as an important reform in response to recent abuses of the criminal justice system “is to protect the individual from any unfairness.” Rinaldi should receive the benefit of the policy whenever its application is urged by the Government.” Id for the reasons set forth in the Motion and at the February 19 that means the pending charges must be dismissed the Department’s conclusion that dismissal would serve the public good by deterring weaponization and promoting Executive Branch national security and immigration objectives Every action that a diligent public servant takes should be designed to advance the public good If taking such steps were treated as the equivalent of a personal gift or bribe whether under the ethics rules or bribery laws government would literally grind to a halt That is why “a proposal to trade one public act for another is fundamentally unlike the swap of an official act for a private payment.” United States v Remember: Judge Ho ruled that the publicity around the case did not violate local rules and Adams never even claimed selective prosecution This is Bove saying he knows better and Judge Ho has no say in the matter Having thus claimed that Trump’s own declaration that prosecutions against him were unfair can his defense attorney then tries to flip his own alleged unethical conduct Both in the introduction and in a long follow-up section (together making up about 8 pages of 18) Bove spins Danielle Sassoon and Hagan Scotten’s refusal to do something they viewed to be unethical as itself misconduct He does so in two ways. First, and most alarmingly, he suggests that resigning rather than taking an action they deemed unethical amounted to misconduct. Consider the logic of these two paragraphs (Bragg v. Jordan is the Second Circuit opinion holding that Mark Pomerantz had to respond to a Jim Jordan subpoena sustaining Bove’s paranoia and Trump’s conspiracy theories about him): rather than carry out their obligations under the Department’s chain of command Attorney’s authority is derivate of the Executive Power that the President has delegated to the Attorney General The Attorney General explained on February 5 2025 that “it undermines the constitutional order and deprives the President of the benefit of his lawyers” when the Department’s attorneys “refuse to advance good faith arguments .”3 SDNY’s prosecution team and Executive Staff did just that preferring “political theatre” [sic] over their obligations to the Constitution and the public SDNY has taken a markedly different tack in other cases by conceding that the office is bound by the Department’s senior leadership SDNY felt “constrained” to “confess error at the direction of the Solicitor General’s Office” and to ask the Second Circuit to “set aside” trial convictions on several fraud counts at 2 (noting that SDNY was “constrained to follow” the Department’s position); id at 12 (“[T]he Government is constrained to concede that the § 641 object of each conspiracy was legally invalid because the dismissal motion had been “approved at the highest levels of the Department of Justice,” “w[e] do not have authority to make any changes to that document.” ECF No the SDNY prosecution team lacked authority to countermand a decision authorized by the Attorney General Their misconduct is not a basis to extend this litigation 3 https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1388521/dl?inline He does so while invoking the memo Pam Bondi issued last month demanding that all lawyers of the Department be willing to “vigorously defend[] presidential policies and actions against legal challenges on behalf of the United States.” The consequence Bondi lays out for failing to zealously (a word repeated four times) defend Trump’s views is discipline or termination It is therefore the policy of the Department of Justice that any attorney who because of their personal political views or judgments declines to sign a brief or appear in court refuses to advance good-faith arguments on behalf of the Administration or otherwise delays or impedes the Department’s mission will be subject to discipline and potentially termination rather than firing her while she remained an employee Bove is robbing Sassoon and Scotten of the ability to resign to avoid an unethical act He’s saying the mere act of doing so — the act of making the ethically correct decision as a lawyer — amounts to misconduct he document dumps a bunch of communications Sassoon a veritable Twitter Files dump in a legal filing clearly misrepresenting the context of at least some of them (I’ve put the references to all eight Exhibits below.) Bove quotes from a text exchange three days after the election in which someone asks the very conservative Hagan Scotten if he’s going to go after a judgeship now that a Republican won “Got to convict Adams before I can think about anything else.” Bove quotes this three times! But it appears to say precisely the opposite of what Bove implies — he uses it to slam Scotten (along with Sassoon) as “aggressive and careerist.” But instead it shows that Scotten was focused on what he was doing; he wasn’t rushing from what Bove claims is a dogshit prosecution to find a lifetime promotion “illustrates why [Scotten] was later interested in using public filings to send messages to President Trump,” which makes no sense at all; it was already clear by the election that Trump was sucking up to Adams he would have ditched the prosecution ASAP possibly even (as Bove himself did) rush to represent Trump in two criminal cases for attacking the country Similarly, Bove treats a draft of the letter Sassoon ultimately sent to Pam Bondi on February 12 as a big gotcha pretending that there’s no difference between “having the authority” to dismiss charges with “having a valid basis to do so.” which is that it was a stretch to suggest it targeted Adams at all and certainly didn’t violate local rules Although Mayor Adams does not request relief under Local Rule 23.1 Nor does the statement “go[] beyond the public record.” There’s even a clear concern not to dictate anything to the incoming Main Justice team nor to piss off Trump precisely the kind of deference Bove is demanding Plus, Bove omitted something from Sassoon’s letter to Bondi and as he stated in our meeting of January 31 the Department has no concerns about the conduct or integrity of the line prosecutors who investigated and charged this case and it does not question the merits of the case itself it bears emphasis that I have only known the line prosecutors on this case to act with integrity and in the pursuit of justice and nothing I have learned since becoming U.S Williams’s role in the investigation and oversight of this case was even more minimal than I had assumed he did not manage the day-to-day investigation and the charges in this case were recommended or approved by four experienced career prosecutors the Chiefs of the SDNY Public Corruption Unit and career prosecutors at the Public Integrity Section of the Justice Department Williams’s decision to ratify their recommendations does not taint the charging decision Emil Bove went fishing in the prosecutors personal emails (the other two AUSAs on the team were put on paid leave Friday ensuring they lost access to these communications before Bove filed this) hoping to find corroboration for his false claims about politicization he simply made up they made Sassoon and Scotten look like careerists when nothing he submitted supports that at all An attempt to smear two prosecutors for making an ethical decision precisely the basis of several ethical complaints raised against Bove himself Understand, too, Bove is playing a transparent game. Publishing these communications is a privacy violation, little different than the release of the Strzok and Page texts which DOJ subsequently determined was unlawful. Bove as much as concedes the point in his request asking to seal the exhibits the Department sought to strike an appropriate balance between the public’s right of access and the privacy interests of the attorneys at issue by anonymizing the participants to communications The participants are the subjects of an ongoing investigation at the Department Even to the extent inferences regarding the identities of certain participants could be drawn based on connections to public reporting that is not the case for each of the individual participants filing something under seal provides cause for the press to demand to have it unsealed under precisely the same “public right of access.” It won’t be sealed for long And the only mystery about the identities of AUSAs 2 and 4 is which is which member of the now-suspended prosecution team None of this disproves there was a quid pro quo None of this presents any evidence that Sassoon or Scotten had any question about the ethics of their decision All it does is confirm that when Bove says he’s fighting weaponization he means he’s going to go after anyone who gets in his way of weaponizing DOJ Exhibit A: Part of a package of communications Danielle Sassoon attached to an email; Bove claims that all are related to her resignation (it’s not clear they are) Attorney-2) sent herself a draft letter stating that she was “personally disappointed in [her] predecessor’s self-serving actions after his departure Attorney-2 sent an email attaching draft materials relating to her anticipated resignation One of the documents was named “Adams PR,” i.e. which suggests that she was already planning to publicize her resignation styled as a letter to the Attorney General Attorney-2 “was personally disappointed in my predecessor’s self-serving actions after his departure including the creation of a personal website.” Ex that “the Attorney General has the authority to order the dismissal of pending charges.” Id Attorney-2 emailed a letter to the Attorney General that omitted this language and claimed falsely: “The Government Does Not Have a Valid Basis To Seek Dismissal.” Exhibit B: A discussion about how to respond to Eric Adams’ complaints about Damien Williams’ public comments prior to making the public claim that only a “coward” or “fool” would sign the Motion a recently-resigned AUSA from the SDNY prosecution team (AUSA-1) wrote the following regarding the letter that SDNY filed with the Court on January 22 Attorney-1] obviously has political ambitions and I think suggesting we doubt that just costs us credibility.” Ex AUSA-1 also wrote that it was “pretty plausible” to him that U.S Attorney-1 “had a political motive in bringing this case.” Id “I know that none of us were motivated by [U.S but I don’t think any of us know for sure what motivated [U.S AUSA-1 added the following comments in the draft of the letter: Exhibit C: Another discussion about how to respond to Eric Adams’ complaints about Damien Williams’ public comments AUSA-1 explained that he hoped to “distance” the SDNY prosecution team from U.S “enough that [Judge] Ho and [President] Trump will know we don’t approve of what he did but not so much that we magnify the scandal.” AUSA-1 circulated a draft of the letter SDNY ultimately filed on January 22 in which the prosecutors argued—wrongly—that Mayor Adams’ “criticism of the article and the fact of its publication are beside the point.” ECF No In the email attaching the draft of the letter Attorney-1] enough that [Judge] Ho and [President] Trump will know we don’t approve of what he did but not so much that we magnify the scandal.” Ex “I think we want to create distance between those prosecutors and the [] US Attorney.” Id Another AUSA on the SDNY prosecution team (AUSA-4) added “I agree that we should create some space from [U.S but I also think we should avoid anything that looks like us fighting with [U.S Attorney-1] (which would be counterproductive).” As the SDNY prosecution team continued to debate the substance of the draft letter AUSA4 suggested that the prosecutors should argue that Mayor Adams was “wrong about his claim that our prosecution is motivated by [U.S Exhibit D: A November 8 text in which Scotten said he wasn’t going to pursue a judgeship right away in response to a text message asking if it was “time” for AUSA-1 to “take a seat on the bench,” AUSA-1 responded: “Got to convict Adams before I can think about anything else.” AUSA-1 received a message with the following question: “You think it’s time to take a seat on the bench “Got to convict Adams before I can think about anything else.” just as AUSA-1 hoped to convict Mayor Adams as the last notch in his belt before he took a “seat on the bench,” Ex At least one of the prosecutors was as aggressive and careerist as U.S AUSA-1 exchanged messages with another AUSA on the SDNY prosecution team (AUSA-2) about efforts to “exclude” a “defense witness” in this case AUSA-1 remarked that an “invocation is better” than “[l]etting him come in and refuse cross.” 2024 comment from one of the other AUSAs about how they portrayed the influence relationship another AUSA on the SDNY prosecution team (AUSA-3) acknowledged in a text message to AUSA-1 that “we did a lot of gymnastics around the influence point” in the Indictment and argued that “maybe making him the one exploiting the corrupt relationship works better.” Ex Exhibit G: A January 21 response to a draft of the filing AUSA-1 circulated a revised version of the draft with comment bubbles that included: Exhibit H: Another message about the January 21 filing AUSA-1 asserted that he preferred a strategy that “buys us more credibility by first making clear we’re not defending the [U.S Attorney-1] article before then going on the attack.” Ex typo: “ And he does so while claiming their ethical decision to resign rather than do something ethical amounted to misconduct.” Do something UNethical – Located in the paragraph on the homepage where the descriptive blurbs are I know it’s been a while since I last commented so I wanted to thank Marcy again for all of her wonderful thought provoking work You do an amazing job of presenting the tons of detail about important cases One thing I was thinking about when reading this article is why the Trump admin is going so far out in its arguments about weaponization of government prosecutions Often they seem so over the top and ludicrous.Obviously and Georgia prosecutions and wants revenge But I think that he also sees a great opportunity to use his Justice Department and the often subservient/paid for courts to push case law out as far as possible to protect both him and his “ethically challenged” friends in the future That way they can continue criming for the foreseeable future with much less worry It’s classic: deny (I’m not criming!); accuse (it’s the other people who weaponized the Justice Dept); reverse onto victim (same) Watch the power of normal human instincts to comply and not make a fuss kick in As the crimers don’t care about social norms and/or don’t feel any shame/guilt/whatever they hold a big up front advantage at this stage watch people flail while they try to engage with the ludicrous words – the words have no real meaning beyond enabling the behavior to continue so engaging with them is like fighting tar in a tar pit – just get more tarred and start to sink direct the mob covered in tar at anyone refusing to comply and refusing to engage with the meaningless words The amazing part is how this can all be so obvious yet so effective at the same time It seems perhaps not the best choice for DOJ to say that no court examination beyond the motion is necessary and then to provide a bunch of new information in an attempt to bolster their case I expect this increases the chances that Ho will engage in a factual inquiry [Moderator’s note: please slow down and double-check the Name/Email fields before hitting the Post Comment button You made a typo in your email address for this comment and a typo in your name in your last comment (which I corrected without telling you) These errors trigger auto-moderation requiring human intervention to clear them Check your browser’s cache and autofill as well Emil Bove seems to know less about contract and employment law than Donald Trump If you and I are having preliminary talks about my investing in your company I have not made an enforceable offer that you can accept If an employee and boss are having a discussion about the boss creating an abusive workplace the employee has not extended to the boss an offer to resign that can be enforced against the employee If an employee quits rather than violate the law or binding rules of professional conduct that’s not insubordination or unethical conduct He could probably write a law review article about it off the top of his head Which means he’s lying to the court in a way he hopes is not obviously frivolous Other reports have suggested Bove has a bit of a short fuse combined with a belief in his own sharpness Looks like this filing was written with both those qualities running in top gear the filing expands the public record which Ho may use (says Clement) in making his ruling on dismissal with access to records and evidence none of us have seen (well mentioned in his report that Emil Bove had only an assertion of belief in an improper SDNY indictment while implying publicly available information (not just belief) indicates higher odds of Bove’s own “bad faith.” I’d earlier noted item #3 on Judge Ho’s list of things for Clement to address was “…additional procedural steps and/or further inquiry…appropriate before resolving a Rule 48(a) motion.” I agree it is unsatisfying that Clement hasn’t recommended such further inquiry instead viewing resolution of the SDNY/DoJ conflict as “beyond the judicial ken” and “also unnecessary” (since dismissal with prejudice is the most likely result either way) it’s dismissal with prejudice for government misconduct but enough information became known to the public that his reelection seems unlikely under the better ten guilty go free than one innocent be convicted principle It would have more satisfying to see Judge Ho enter sanctions against the misbehaving attorneys and report their misconduct to the appropriate bodies…but we can’t always get what we want as he provided perhaps the strongest public confirmation of Bove’s intentional bad faith by saying the quiet part out loud on Fox News) At least part of their plan was testing the bounds of what types of contrary-to-the-rule-of-law aggression a weaponized DoJ might get away with they might be finding out that at least for now at least one boundary is stronger than they thought One wonders if that was exactly Clements aim in taking on the assignment: in essence to save Trump’s legal strategy from itself in this specific case Taking away the shovel DoJ was using to dig itself into a hole with zero intention to smack them on the head with it instead handing it back to them so they could dig better holes somewhere else I’m confused as to the “misconduct” of which Bove speaks What is “bad” about the actions that the DAs took Is he saying those actions constitute weaponization (which what is the legal penalty for such “misconduct” or go stand in the corner (classic penalties if I recall correctly!) Death by a thousand cuts ” I guess I just can’t see what any of it has to do with whether and how the Adams case should be dismissed.; sounds more like a baby whining Bove: Are you arguing that the indictment should be dismissed without prejudice rather than with prejudice for the reason that two of your subordinates chose to quit Or are you saying there is another substantive reason for choosing dismissal without prejudice The only sense in which I can understand Democrats’ pursuit of another Democrat is in Sheriff Cleavon Little’s world That’s why they’ve supported firing their own people for misbehavior I meant to write ‘Democrats’ pursuit of another Democrat as weaponization It seems pretty clear to me that the misconduct A well-supported heuristic is to remember that every GOP accusation is an admission about their own conduct I would guess we all know people who would apply their standards / morals / responses to others they don’t know at all This GOP playbook is an outgrowth of that I am amused by Bove’s request to seal communications that are already in the public sphere It’s like anything else on the internet there is no way to extirpate all references or copies Same thing with Bondi’s ballyhooed Epstein file ‘release’ which at least was an improvement over the blank pages of ACA repeal attempt 1.0 (if not useful) because the Maxwell case already put those in the public record I suspect the two versions will be placed side by side to show Bondi’s manipulation of evidence If it wasn’t for bad faith they wouldn’t have any faith at all ’cause they were born under a bad sign I agree with Purple Martin and Captain Condorcet Clement is saying that there is no recourse for what he calls bad faith Clement says the Court should not undertake any investigation beyond that necessary to decide the motion in front of it The clear implication is that there is no recourse for possible criminal acts by a prosecutor He claims that because of separation of powers there is no one empowered to look into the decisions of the executive branch Trump about the president’s total control of the AG I’d say Judge Ho has the inherent authority to refer Bove to the proper disciplinary authorities That’s something that every lawyer should do The nice thing about advice from an agent is that the principal can modify or refuse to take it The very conservative Paul Clement has axes to grind Having worked a long time at Kirkland & Ellis I’ll grant that as an equal possibility is better—I’m unqualified to give even a meaningful guess at the odds one of Joe Biden’s most liberal appointees hired one of the most prominent conservative lawyers in the country and Steelman the positions of both government parties—something Clement’s long record demonstrates he’s capable of But your point that Judge Ho can modify or refuse to take Clements recommendations—and Ed Walker’s that he retains “the inherent authority to refer Bove to the proper disciplinary authorities”—are worth remembering Perhaps my more satisfying resolution may yet come into play 1 the court should investigate no further than is necessary to determine whether there is the existence of a concern of Prosecution bad faith sufficient to enable the court to decide the interests of justice require a dismissal with prejudice But what Clement omitted from his analysis is what an actual judicial consideration of the material (the competing claims (a) and (b) ) should properly involve Clements analysis of the case law demonstrates that reasons for a ruling based on findings (rather than mere assumptions or presumptions) of bad faith/impropriety are necessary If the material creating the possibility/ appearance that the Prosecution are now acting improperly/in bad faith in seeking to dismiss the case is determined to be correct then the Prosecution is also now improperly asserting that the proceedings had been improperly brought and/or weaponised Conversely motions and arguments made before the court by the prosecution and ruled on by the Court in favor of the prosecution are now by necessary implication disavowed by the DOJ in its current formation Being sensitive not to unduly intrude upon “intramural considerations” but it is quite another to avoid any exploration of (and explanation for) the extraordinary conflicting allegations of bad faith in the conduct of proceedings before him having as he does a duty to safeguard the administration of justice generally in proceedings before him over and above the specific consideration in Rule 48 I would have thought that any District Judge worth their salt would not want to abdicate their responsibility to make a ruling on a firmer factual foundation than Mr Clement’s argument apparently invites Quickie: Something odd in final sentence of para 7 and second sentence of para 8: “Both in the introduction and in a long follow-up section (together making up about 8 pages of 18) Bove spins Danielle Sassoon and Hagan Scotten’s refusal to do something they viewed to be unethical and itself misconduct he suggests that resigning rather than taking an action they deemed unethical amounted to misconduct.” the end of second sentence in para8 says nearly the same wording as end of para 7 (seems redundant) para7 ends “refusal to do something they viewed to be unethical and itself misconduct” suspect you wanted “refusal to do something they viewed to be unethical _as_ itself misconduct” “It cannot be denied that President Trump’s anti-weaponization policy is in the public interest as an important reform in response to recent abuses of the criminal justice system.” Bove writes like a high school junior who just discovered Ayn Rand–the kind of sullen teen whose parents let him keep his bedroom door closed all the time because they’re convinced he’s a genius all the abuses of the justice system I’ve heard about are by The Felon Guy and his minions “Bove writes like a high school junior who just discovered Ayn Rand–the kind of sullen teen whose parents let him keep his bedroom door closed all the time because they’re convinced he’s a genius.” not the least because Randian thought is the basis for most of what’s going on today in the GOP “Atlas Shits Himself,” could be the title to this ongoing as we’re watching Musk athwart Trump (like a SpaceX booster with Musk’s Slim Pickens humping his ride) blast off and proceed inevitably toward self-detonation and a civilization-wide debris-field for the rest of us to deal with Randians do indeed abound among the upper echelons of the Trump administration it seems–a sure sign of both the mediocrity and the obsolescence of any so-called “thought” behind the whole thing the charges against Adams appeared under Biden So it’s Democrats weaponized against a Democrat This whole “weaponization” argument is just an excuse for Trump to rail against any damn person he wants and try to flip them and remember–they get the last word [Welcome back to emptywheel. Please use the SAME USERNAME and email address each time you comment so that community members get to know you. You attempted to publish this comment as “Nostra_Thomas” triggering auto-moderation; it has been edited to reflect your established username My addled art-filled brain doesn’t always have the time or patience to puzzle out your careful writing The agony of trying to move past the personal “I just can’t rap my head around these crimes” mindset is often abated as I comprehend at least a modicum of each post You offer confidence to people like me that greater minds are at work…thereby hope That’s exactly how I feel every time I read her analyses but when you wrote “‘I just can’t rap my around these crimes,'” the misspelling of wrap struck me as brilliant I’ve been rapping my own head *against* these crimes for what feels like years Bove is doing this because he is convinced that nobody can stop him and he holds all the Trump cards if they try The whole administration is focused on the goal of attaining absolute power by abrogating the legislative and judicial branches to the role of rubber stamping its wishes When ‘the law’ gets in the way because law doesn’t exist unless the autocrats are willing to abide by it “Institutions will not save you” from autocracy Compromising with these people is not possible but this scenario has never really played out in America and 100,000,000 ticked off Democrats or anyone else might just get violent Perhaps you can reverse the order: After the first EO onslaught it became: simply ignoring it Legislation is hard – so why bother until absolutely necessary What will happen when this Trump regime repeatedly fails to comply with court orders This story today in The Guardian reminds that at least two courts have already ruled that the government has not complied with the earlier orders of those courts to pay out congressionally-mandated funds On the New Yorker Radio Hour podcast Anthony Romero the executive director of the A.C.L.U suggests that if the government won’t follow court orders “We might have to shut down the country” (with mass protest in the streets) And then we’ll probably have Trump wanting to use the military against those protesters Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information A watchdog organization is calling on the Justice Department’s attorney misconduct office to investigate acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove’s “partisan” order to dismiss charges against New York’s mayor Bove potentially violated multiple New York attorney ethics rules and DOJ policies by directing prosecutors to partake in “what appears to be a corrupt quid pro quo deal,” the Campaign for Accountability said in a complaint filed Monday with the department’s Office of Professional Responsibility The complaint, which echoes similar accusations made by two Democratic senators Feb. 27, puts Bove in a somewhat awkward situation of possibly facing a probe from an office he oversees. He has also asked that office to investigate the Manhattan prosecutors who refused to obey his order to dismiss charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams The post-Watergate OPR has sought to operate independently from political leadership in reviewing DOJ attorneys’ behavior But Bove recently reassigned power to two of his personal aides to make final determinations on employee discipline and ethics—stripping that authority from a senior career official OPR doesn’t have disciplinary power, but does make referrals to a different office that can recommend suspensions or removal. And that disciplinary office’s decisions now could be overturned by Bove’s politically-appointed aides, according to a memo obtained by Bloomberg Law Bove’s mandate that prosecutors drop Adams’ corruption charges in exchange for the mayor’s cooperation with the Trump administration’s immigration agenda is now under review by a prominent court-appointed attorney, former US Solicitor General Paul Clement His actions may have violated New York professional conduct rules barring attorneys from dishonesty committing threats of prosecution to gain advantage in civil matters and inducing other lawyers to violate rules Campaign for Accountability Executive Director Michelle Kuppersmith wrote in her letter to OPR counsel Jeffrey Ragsdale The nonpartisan Campaign for Accountability works to expose public misconduct through research and litigation The complaint also alleges that Bove appears to have violated DOJ’s policy requiring “investigatory and prosecutorial powers be exercised free from partisan consideration.” OPR “is uniquely positioned to put a stop to this by preventing Mr Bove from using his high-level DOJ position to continue this conduct or repeat it in future investigations or prosecutions,” the organization wrote Bove denied the existence of a quid pro quo arrangement with Adams and defended the dismissal by taking aim at the Manhattan federal prosecutors who brought the case last year He alleged there was at minimum the appearance of impropriety if not an abuse of the justice process To contact the reporter on this story: Ben Penn in Washington at bpenn@bloomberglaw.com To contact the editors responsible for this story: Seth Stern at sstern@bloomberglaw.com; John Crawley at jcrawley@bloomberglaw.com AI-powered legal analytics, workflow tools and premium legal & business news. 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Share full articleThe Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee asked a New York State legal committee to investigate Emil Bove III a Justice Department official who is seeking to end the prosecution of Mayor Eric Adams of New York City who was hand-picked by Trump’s people resigned today rather than do the dirty bidding of Trump’s defense attorney (and disgruntled former SDNY AUSA) Emil Bove two attorneys in DOJ’s Public Integrity Division A letter, yesterday, from Sassoon to Pam Bondi and another, today, from Bove to Sassoon document much of what happened Sassoon documents that Bove likened the dismissal of charges against Adams to the Viktor Bout prisoner exchange (something that was in his original letter) Bove proposes dismissing the charges against Adams in return for his assistance in enforcing the federal immigration laws analogizing to the prisoner exchange in which the United States freed notorious Russian arms dealer Victor Bout in return for an American prisoner in Russia Such an exchange with Adams violates commonsense beliefs in the equal administration of justice The “commitment to the rule of law is nowhere more profoundly manifest” than in criminal justice 384 (2004) (alterations and citation omitted) Impartial enforcement of the law is the bedrock of federal prosecutions “the rule of law depends upon the evenhanded administration of justice The legal judgments of the Department of Justice must be impartial and insulated from political influence.” JM § 1-8.100 Bove appears prepared to concede—that Adams should receive leniency for federal crimes solely because he occupies an important public position and can use that position to assist in the Administration’s policy priorities Adams’s advocacy should be called out for what it is: an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case Bove disclaimed any intention to exchange leniency in this case for Adams’s assistance in enforcing federal law,1 that is the nature of the bargain laid bare in Mr Bove’s comparison to the Bout prisoner exchange and not the prosecutors in charge of Bout’s case The comparison to the Bout exchange is particularly alarming That prisoner swap was an exchange of official acts between separate sovereigns (the United States and Russia) neither of which had any claim that the other should obey its laws who is seeking a personal benefit—immunity from federal laws to which he is undoubtedly subject—in exchange for an act—enforcement of federal law—he has no right to refuse the Bout exchange was a widely criticized sacrifice of a valid American interest (the punishment of an infamous arms dealer) which Russia was able to extract only through a patently selective prosecution of a famous American athlete.2 It is difficult to imagine that the Department wishes to emulate that episode by granting Adams leverage over it akin to Russia’s influence in international affairs It is a breathtaking and dangerous precedent to reward Adams’s opportunistic and shifting commitments on immigration and other policy matters with dismissal of a criminal indictment Nor will a court likely find that such an improper exchange is consistent with the public interest Nederlandsche Combinatie Voor Chemische Industrie (“Nederlandsche Combinatie”) 1977) (denying Government’s motion to dismiss where Government had agreed to dismiss charges against certain defendants in exchange for guilty pleas by others); cf 2003) (describing a prosecutor’s acceptance of a bribe as a clear example of a dismissal that should not be granted as contrary to the public interest) Bove—an exchange between a criminal defendant and the Department of Justice akin to the Bout exchange with Russia—is a bargain that a prosecutor should not make dismissing without prejudice and with the express option of again indicting Adams in the future creates obvious ethical problems by implicitly threatening future prosecution if Adams’s cooperation with enforcing the immigration laws proves unsatisfactory to the Department 1997) (disciplining prosecutor for threatening to renew a dormant criminal investigation against a potential candidate for public office in order to dissuade the candidate from running); Bruce A Who Should Police Politicization of the DOJ? 681 (2021) (noting that the Arizona Supreme Court disbarred the elected chief prosecutor of Maricopa County for misusing their power to advance the chief prosecutor’s partisan political interests) given the highly generalized accusations of weaponization weighed against the strength of the evidence against Adams a court will likely question whether that basis is pretextual 1964) (courts “should be satisfied that the reasons advanced for the proposed dismissal are substantial and the real grounds upon which the application is based”) Adams’s attorneys repeatedly urged what amounted to a quid pro quo indicating that Adams would be in a position to assist with the Department’s enforcement priorities only if the indictment were dismissed Bove admonished a member of my team who took notes during that meeting and directed the collection of those notes at the meeting’s conclusion https://thehill.com/homenews/3767785-trump-pans-prisoner-swap-brittney-grinerhates-our-country/ Bove suggested that DOJ was adopting an unreviewable judgement of “weaponization” in disciplining lawyers The weaponization finding in my February 10 2025 memorandum was made pursuant to a policy set forth by President Trump who is the only elected official in the ExecutiveBranch in connection with a decision that was authorized by the Senate-confirmed Attorney General ofthe United States and entirely consistent with guidance issued by the Attorney General shortly after that confirmation Your Office has no authority to contest the weaponization finding or the second independent basis requiring dismissal set forth in my memorandum The Justice Department will not tolerate the insubordination and apparent misconduct reflected in the approach that you and your office have taken in this matter You are well aware of the Department’s weaponization concerns regarding the handling of the investigation and prosecution of Mayor Adams Those concerns include behavior that supports unacceptable appearances of impropriety and the politicization of your office The investigation was accelerated after Mayor Adams publicly criticized President Biden’s failed immigration policies Attorney with deep connections to the former Attorney General who oversaw the weaponization ofthe Justice Department the charging decision was rushed as the 2024 Presidential election approached Attorney appears to have been pursuing potential political appointments in the event Kamala Harris won that election I’ve been wondering for some time when Bove would wildly overstep with his aggressiveness He’s now facing documentation that supports a quid pro quo seeking political favors he suggested his recourse is to adopt a label — weaponization — with no due process Trump may yet get his quid pro quo (though Judge Dale Ho now has abundant reason to refuse to dismiss this case) Update: Note that the same day Sassoon sent the letter to Bondi Update: NYT has published the original letter instructing Sassoon to dismiss the case Additional resignations now from Office of Public Integrity There may be three more but we don’t have names Reuters now reporting 6 total–the entire management team But resignations of non magas is on of trump te goals unfortunately so that literally no honorable or ethical people will remain DOJ resignations over orders to drop charges against the NYC mayor (via Reuters) (That’s four of the six leaders of the Public Integrity Section) She doesn’t give a link and I can’t find anything at Reuters at the moment… Sassoon’s letter does more than imply a quid pro quo…damn Bove is hoping to turn a critical difference in policy into a personnel matter What he seems to be documenting is a corrupt bargain Kathy Hochul has the power to dismiss Adams as mayor would that be getting in the way of this ever growing snowball There are reports SDNY was about to drop a superseding indictment accusing Adams of destroying evidence and telling people to lie to the FBI Except that Bondi quickly sued her (and is prepping basis to charge in the FEMA funding) It’s beginning to look like Trump’s defense lawyers aren’t very good at this government thing Would that count as “politicizing” the DoJ Sassoon’s response to Bove’s offer of dismissal “without prejudice” intimates that Trump gets to keep Adams on a leash for as long as he finds it useful to do so It definitely does intimate that – though Adams trusting Trump to not re-throw him back under the bus later despite whatever corrupt immigration stuff he does for him while on that leash of the “but the leopards definitely won’t eat MY face!!” variety Trump will get rid of him the second he stops being convenient because he is a black former democrat and it would make him feel powerful Because that’s the kind of asshole Trump is Given the rabid republicans reactions to Ho in his nomination battle (and Joe Manchin’s spiteful contribution to those events) it wouldn’t surprise me if a certain segment of MAGA republicans aren’t itching for Ho to refuse to dismiss the case so they can thereafter go after Ho all over again and use Ho as their political poster boy for woke judiciary This is going to get very nasty very quickly I honestly think they haven’t gotten that far Too busy beating up a judge (Engelmeyer) who is no longer on the case and another (Bates) who ruled for the government once already “Unreviewable judgment of weaponization.” AKA I would have thought “insubordination” was a safer category for a govt employer When Bove’s logic gets to the courts I hate to judge before all the facts are in but it’s beginning to look like Emil Bove is neither pretty nor smart I see that Bove foamed at the mouth at length about alleged insubordination while denying that any of his conduct constituted an adverse employment decision they’re in a panic and throwing ketchup at the wall Many of Trump’s best people believe they can fake smart tbf…it has worked for them in the past I’ve started tracking their accusations of “insubordination.” They’re really piling up hurling the term at Danielle Sassoon (of all people) almost automatically reveals its hollowness Bove is really letting his mediocrity shine forth with these petty little epistles of his which do nothing to burnish a public image dominated by the scowling Stephen-Miller-in-utero photos of Bove in court That image of Bove as Miller-in-utero is going to be hard to scrub Bove looks like a Milleresque who is way past ripe I don’t think they’re mutually exclusive As in: both Miller and Bove were born that way and prematurely old–not old in the good (wise but old in the blame-others-for-my-own-disappointments way Both he and Bove look 20 years older than they actually are Bove’s rationale that pursuing this case is election interference seems at first glance to be odd the amount of time between the indictment and the election is quite lengthy and the DOJ has pursued cases in the past against both Republicans and Democrats with much less time until the election But Bove’s rationale brings to mind Trump’s use of this same line of thinking when he declared his candidacy for reelection on November 15 as well as the actual argument Trump made to SCOTUS that as a candidate it sounds mightily as if Trump was whispering in his ear NY Times says Adams didn’t just “cozy up” to Trump his lawyers were literally coached by Bove on how to craft their argument which he then used to order Sassoon to withdraw case https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/nyregion/adams-lawyers-justice-department-dismissal.html?unlocked_article_code=1.w04.vCZl.nmP6bc2ZcgwQ&smid=url-share …or that this was exactly Bove’s counsel to Trump back in Nov ’22 like he’s Roy Cohn’s reincarnation And it appears he’s following Cohn concerning his ability to practice law in NY it wasn’t even the election–it was the primary it would practically insulate members of the House of Representatives (and anyone else elected to 2-year terms) from any form of indictment/prosecution Primaries can begin 9-10 months before the general election so if 9 months before the primary is too close then you have to bring charges at least 18 months ahead of time which refers to DJT as the ONLY elected official in the Executive Branch one is not like the other: the Viktor Bout case and the Eric Adams case SDNY asked the court to release Viktor Bout from Marion Supermax asking the court to dismiss the Adams indictment before it even goes to trial is not the same Sassoon’s letter goes into detail as to why the two cases are so different Bove admonished a member of my team who took notes during that meeting and directed the collection of those notes at the meeting’s conclusion.” – Danielle Sassoon Bove’s telling Helsinki move wasn’t even necessary He knows the caper was a quid pro quo despite his footnoted denial but the quote above doesn’t pass the smell test officious accusations of “insubordination.” I’d say he sounds like a screeching parrot but every parrot I’ve known had more intelligence and restraint than Bove is displaying As with the ’30s German political establishment her instincts are divorced from both morality and self preservation Hochul was on with Rachel Maddow tonight and she is speaking with attorneys to finalize her decision about canning Adams She said that this next 4 years are going to be long and she is trying not to react to everything at top volume for fear of anesthetizing the citizens I would say I think she is going to fire him She prefaced her remarks on Adams by saying that “this is unbelievably unprecedented that DOJ in Washington should interfere in this way… Bondi administration of the DOJ is already showing they are corrupt …” What most amazed me about Bove’s way-over-the-top acceptance letter to Sassoon was this Orwellian criticism: “suggesting that you retain discretion to interpret the Constitution in a manner inconsistent with the policies of a democratically elected President” and a confirmed AG Sassoon erred merely by evaluating his February 10 directive to dismiss the prosecution let alone her disagreeing with that directive after her reflection Resigning because one can’t in good conscience adopt the GroupThink is exactly the right thing to do That no one at DOJ is to question any directive is what Bove and Bondi aspire to He’s also specifically targeting ways he can make the most of the immunity decision Roberts’ view on POTUS involvement in criminal cases is wildly incompatible with legal ethics and even the Justice Manual Bove may be among the smarter members of this administration which is notable for the general dumbing-down it represents of key roles He does indeed seem to be poking around to see how far that immunity cloak might extend as are Hegseth and the (as yet unconfirmed) Kash Patel this is the front where I expect to see the most interesting legal battles being fought I mean desperate and potentially fatal to the future of the republic Emil knows that every officer of the United States That requires that they evaluate each of them against that standard because it would conflict with his duty as Donald Trump’s defense counsel He has more affinity with Roy Cohn than just looking like him Roy Cohn was an Adonis compared to this dork Values tell you who to shoot and which side you should be on Values apparently don’t help steer an aircraft carrier either directly at Bove and the rest of the hierarchy above her Values are exceptionally important on the battlefield Pete Hegseth is not fit to run a paintball team innumerable impeachable acts and the VP calling for the President to defy Court Orders When will Americans wake up to what is happening is there a reason the state of New York couldn’t bring similar corruption charges against Mayor Adams is it possible that Emil Bove was acting corruptly during the time he was supposed to be investigating January 6th cases and Donald Trump knows it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRgNktYoKlw if recent reporting about his participation in J6 prosecutions breaks through Trump can’t possibly love Bove’s untelegenic looks; Bove is becoming an embarrassment to the administration; and all this cheating on behalf of a Black Democrat Strongmen (and wannabes) demand utmost loyalty whilst returning none The Trump loving little guy and gal won’t believe the truth (in front of their eyes) unless Joe Rogan tells them it’s the truth I’m going to post here under the name Joe Orton from now on.) [Thanks for letting me know about the change It may take a while to “train” the algorithm to recognize your new name nycsouthpaw has a screenshot of Scott Hagan’s resignation letter: really put some mustard on his resignation letter Too damn bad that means they’re now out of these jobs But it may give their actions cover with a certain kind of Republican senator in a position to “just ask questions,” or voice the mildest dissenting opinion–see Roger Wicker’s comments on Hegseth’s moronic blunders […] Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good attorney would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power to influence other citizens If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool …and I still got the spelling wrong: HAGAN I wonder what ROBERTS and KAVANAUGH think about this resignation letter Pretty sure that “Eric” and “Emil” are out as names for Sassoon’s coming child DOJ leadership has put all Public Integrity Section lawyers into a room with 1 hour to decide who will dismiss Adams indictment or else all will be fired Sending them strength to stand by their oath Follow-up reporting from Reuters: Apparently someone (as yet unnamed) volunteered to take the fall on this to save their colleagues’ jobs. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/federal-prosecutor-will-sign-motion-dismiss-adams-charges-bid-save-colleagues-2025-02-14/ It was easy to predict that a diktat from Donald Trump’s Justice Department would prompt resignations from career prosecutors with conservative legal bona fides Given Trump’s crude transactionalism and his administration’s determination to reshape the boundaries of executive power it was always likely that we’d get some version of the conflict now pitting Trump’s acting deputy attorney general against Danielle Sassoon and the other prosecutors in the Southern District of New York that the conflict would be sought and stoked just weeks into Trump’s four-year term a Democratic mayor of a liberal city with just 11 months left in his term of office The Trump Department of Justice is picking a fight with its own lawyers not for some long-standing desire of the president’s heart nor over some important point of constitutional interpretation but to keep an official of the rival party And to the extent that there appears to be any quid pro quo at work as the Manhattan Institute’s Charles Fain Lehman points out all the Trump administration is getting from Adams is a promise to enforce existing immigration law – which given his myriad difficulties and limited tenure The assumption inside the Trump administration is that it’s better to cull the potentially disloyal lawyers early or to get them to prove their allegiance up front so that you won’t have to worry about dramatic resignations when you come to some much more important battle Adams isn’t important in his own right; he’s just a useful test of obedience and discipline The difficulty with that approach is that long before administrations get to some immense high-stakes clash many smaller legal battles that it needs to have lawyered effectively The Trump administration has picked a lot of those battles already and quite a few of them – over the scope of the president’s control over the bureaucracy especially – are fights it should be able to win But only with good arguments and effective counsel not with a cavalcade of hacks filing its briefs Thus the downside of enforcing absolute loyalty early is that it signals to competent lawyers both inside and outside the administration that to work for Trump requires immediate subservience And that signal tells the talented and principled exactly the kind of lawyers Trump needs to win Supreme Court cases that they’re better off sitting this administration out Ross Douthat has been an Opinion columnist for The New York Times since 2009 of “The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery.” The email "' + userEmail + '" could not be added Please try again or email Shane at shane@durangoherald.com for assistance Choose from several print and digital subscription packages We use cookies to improve your experience on our site. By using our site, you consent to our policies is surrounded by players after collapsing during the Serie A soccer match between Fiorentina and Inter at the Artemio Franchi Stadium in Florence Emotional players comfort each other as Fiorentina’s Edoardo Bove is taken to hospital during the Serie A soccer match between Fiorentina and Inter at the Artemio Franchi Stadium in Florence The match was suspended and finally postponed is transported to a waiting ambulance during the Serie A soccer match between Fiorentina and Inter at the Artemio Franchi Stadium in Florence The match was suspended and finally postponed as the injures appeared to be serious An ambulance enters the field as Fiorentina’s Edoardo Bove is surrounded by players during the Serie A soccer match between Fiorentina and Inter at the Artemio Franchi Stadium in Florence Bove collapsed on the field during a game against Inter Milan on Dec “I have experienced it firsthand in these last few days: the affection I’ve received the support from teammates and opponents and the closeness of the ENTIRE football world gave me incredible strength and courage,” Bove added which helped me stay calm and not feel the loneliness that often comes with situations like this.” The 22-year-old Bove was released from the hospital on Friday but won’t be able to play in Italy again if he needs a defibrillator for his heart Playing with a defibrillator is prohibited in Italy “I’m feeling good and that’s the most important thing!” Bove said Bove joined Fiorentina on loan from Roma in August with an option to make the move permanent You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed.