A document revealed on Tuesday of the criminal case against the mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, may raise doubts about the testimony of the attached attorney general Todd Blanche during his Senate confirmation hearing.
During the hearing, Blanche was asked about the decision of the Justice Department to withdraw corruption charges against Adams.
The Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, speaks during a press conference at the City of Manhattan in New York, on March 24, 2025.
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“What did I just see with the dismissal of Adams, which was led by DC, correct?” The Democratic Senator Peter Welch asked.
“I have the same information you have,” Blanche replied. “I don’t know beyond what I have [seen] publicly informed. “
However, a newly unusual draft letter of the then Interim, the Interim prosecutor, Danielle Sassoon, suggests that Blanche may have known more than he left.
The Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, speaks during a press conference at the City of Manhattan in New York, on March 24, 2025.
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Sassoon, who was fighting the board to leave the mayor’s case, wrote that he expressed concern to the senior official of the Emil Bove Department of Justice that such a serious decision about a high profile case should wait until Blanche was confirmed. In response, Sassoon wrote that “Bove informed me that Todd Blanche was on the” same page. “
Sassoon would renounce later instead of obeying Bove’s order to leave the mayor’s case.
His draft letter to the attorney general Pam Bondi was among a section of materials ordered by Judge Dale Ho, who is still considering dismissing the case against Adams.
The Department of Justice insisted that Blanche did not play any role in determining the dismissal.
“Todd Blanche did not participate in the decision making of the department before confirmation,” said a spokesman in a statement provided to ABC News.
The mayor’s lawyer said that the letter without sealing is one more evidence that the case must be launched.
“As I said from the beginning, this false case that needed ‘gymnastics’ to find a crime, was based on the ‘political motive’ and the ‘ambition’, not the facts or the law. The more we learn about what was really happening behind the scene, the clearer is that Mayor Adams should never have been prosecuted in the first place,” said Mayor’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, in a statement.
