Tensions Over F.B.I.’s Work on Hamas Case Spill Into the Open

When the Justice Department demanded all the names of F.B.I. personnel who had worked on investigations into the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, it made a similar request about a high-profile terrorism case involving Hamas. But why the department’s acting deputy leader, Emil Bove III, sought the information remained unclear, leaving agents and prosecutors … Read more

A Rupture on the Right Over Prosecutors and the Rule of Law

Speaking to U.S. attorneys in 1940, Attorney General Robert H. Jackson reflected on the enormous scope of prosecutorial power and the crucial importance of shielding it from politics. “The prosecutor has more control over life, liberty and reputation than any other person in America,” Mr. Jackson, who would go on to be a Supreme Court … Read more

Hagan Scotten, Adams’s Lead Prosecutor, Quits Defiantly

Hagan Scotten, the lead prosecutor on the federal corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York City, resigned after Justice Department officials ordered the dismissal of charges he had helped bring, suggesting that only a “fool” or a “coward” would obey. In an undated, scathing resignation letter, Mr. Scotten wrote that any federal prosecutor … Read more

Read the Resignation Letter From Hagan Scotten

BY EMAIL Re: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH) Mr. Bove, I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. … Read more