Andrew Weissmann
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 20 May
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Everything was fake. the acting deputy attorney general has determined the following. The acting deputy attorney general believes this. The acting deputy attorney general has directed X. So the person put their name on it, but was not going to represent anything as being true or his own beliefs. And one other point, when this actually went to court, you've noted that only Emile Bove came.
And I think there's a reason for that, because if the other lawyer had shown up, and this is essentially what happened in the Roger Stone case when the same similar situation happened and career prosecutors withdrew from the case. If you have that person show up, that would have given Judge Ho the ability to say, tell me what happened. Like, what happened? Why are you here? Why did you sign it?
What's going on? And all of the facts about what happened and what Emil Bove had said to the group of public integrity people would have spilled out on the record. So in some ways, Emil Bove was smart to be the person to stand up, but... Dan, that's another thing that's just so unusual. Not only is it completely unheard of to see career people resign, last time I can think of it was Trump 1.0.
And prior to that, of note, it's the Saturday Night Massacre. But the deputy attorney general does not go to court. Right.
Well, I'm in very good company. There are lots and lots of people on that list. I still, after all this time, I'm still an institutionalist who believes that facts and law matter since I haven't done anything wrong. It doesn't mean they can't make my life and a lot of other people's lives, you know, hell and misery.
But there are judges in this country and there are juries in this country and there are grand juries and there are trial juries. And that so far is not, those institutions have not been undermined. It's a very sad state that we're sort of where we are. But I tend to not try to not sort of personalize it and just think about sort of big picture where we are. And just going back to
what we were talking about when you asked what should career people do, I don't really have any other choice because I'm not going to stop speaking what's on my mind and saying what I think. And the day I stop doing that, it's like I can't look at myself in the mirror. And I don't think I deserve any credit whatsoever for that.
I think there are a ton of people in this country who feel exactly the same way.
It's great to talk to you.
Okay, what do we know? We know that there was a meeting last Friday with Danielle Sassoon and her deputies. She was in charge of, and her office was in charge of, the criminal case against the mayor of the city of New York, Eric Adams. It was brought about nine months ago. And the defense lawyers were there and Emil Bove was there. He is the acting deputy attorney general.
New York minute ago, he was one of the criminal defense lawyers for Donald Trump. So he is a placeholder for the Trump administration in that position. And he's going to become the number two to the number two when Tom Blanche becomes the deputy attorney general. His confirmation hearing is pending in the Senate right now. Todd Blanche. Todd Blanche.
So there's various disputes as to what happened at that meeting. But Danielle Sassoon, the head of the now former head of the Southern District of New There was sort of laid out a quid pro quo of I will sort of enforce your immigration policy in exchange for your dismissing the case. That has been disputed by Eric Adams' defense counsel. Understandable he would dispute it even if it happened.
It's possible that there's just two different versions of what happened. More on that later. That is then followed up by a directive from Eyal Bove on Monday to the Southern District of New York saying, you need to dismiss this case without prejudice. I'm not basing this on the facts or the law. I'm basing it on two things. One, The case was brought too close to the New York City primary.
That's a bogus, absurd argument. It was brought nine months before the primary. And there's zero DOJ rules about not bringing a case within nine months of a primary. So that's just a fictitious reason. And it's important that you make that judgment because it's like, why would you come up with that fictitious reason? Why not just go with the truth? if what you're doing is real.
The second reason was sort of saying the quiet part out loud, which we're used to, which was the criminal indictment is going to interfere with the mayor's ability to carry out Donald Trump's immigration policies. That seems to corroborate what Danielle Sassoon said happened on Friday.
Notably, by the way, in her letter describing what happened, she says at that meeting, her deputies took notes and Emile Bove said, at the end of the meeting said, don't take notes and confiscated them and took them. Again, why would you possibly care about somebody taking notes, which people do all the time, if nothing was being said that you in any way That was improper.
It's funny. I always tell my law students I teach at a law school, I always say, read the footnotes. That's where the people say, oh, yeah, by the way, here's a little factoid that tells you what's going on.
And notably, the direction from Amro Bove to the Southern District of New York was to dismiss the case without prejudice, meaning that, as everyone has talked about, there's a sort of Damocles effect. hanging over Eric Adams' head, or as I like to say, a choke collar.
And you've already seen the effects of that choke collar, which is, it has been widely reported that on Monday, which feels like a million years ago, but just this past Monday, Eric Adams met with his entire leadership team, every senior agency head and their general counsels, and said, do not speak ill of Donald Trump. Mr. Trump. Yes.
And then second, yesterday, he said, I'm going to allow ICE agents into local prisons like Rikers to effectuate immigration arrests. That is in violation of local law. So it's just remarkable. So here's a guy who's under indictment, out on bail, saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm authorizing them to violate local law. The mayor is not allowed to do that.
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