Notable & Quotable: Hagan Scotten Resigns
I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was ...
Adams’s Lead Prosecutor Quits Defiantly: ‘It Was Never Going to Be Me’
Hagan Scotten told Justice Department officials that he would not be party to a political prosecution. He was the latest in a ...
Hagan Scotten, lead Adams’ prosecutor, resigns telling DOJ only a ‘coward’ will follow order to drop case
One of the lead prosecutors handling the sweeping public corruption case against Mayor Adams resigned on Friday — in a ...
Judge sets hearing in motion to dismiss case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams
A federal judge has scheduled a Wednesday hearing in the prosecution of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, ordering lawyers to ...
Opinion
Gesen: A New York lesson on our choices as collective hostages
Levada had compassion for people who folded under conditions of collective hostage-taking. Normal people confronted with abnormal demands will just try to survive, he wrote. Nothing prepares ordinary ...
Seventh prosecutor in Eric Adams case resigns and calls out Trump’s former lawyer in scathing letter
A federal prosecutor assigned to the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams resigned Friday in a blistering ...
Read prosecutor’s resignation letter in N.Y. Mayor Eric Adams’s bribery case
Hagan Scotten, the lead prosecutor in Mayor Eric Adams’s federal corruption case, has quit over the Justice Department’s demand that the case be dismissed, calling any lawyer who would move in court ...
Justice Department and New York City mayor face judge's scrutiny in bid to dismiss criminal charges
Justice Department lawyers and New York City Mayor Eric Adams are set to face a federal judge who is signaling that he's ...