A former Watergate prosecutor on Monday urged the federal choose presiding over the prosecution of New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams to assign a particular counsel to assist determine find out how to deal with the Justice Division’s request to drop fees.Lawyer Nathaniel Akerman informed Decide Dale E. Ho in a letter filed within the case file in Manhattan federal court docket that he sought to intervene as a result of no person was representing the general public’s curiosity after three attorneys from the Justice Division in Washington made the request Friday.Video above: U.S. Rep. Daniel Goldman reacts to DOJ suggestion to drop Eric Adams’ caseHe urged the choose to reject the dismissal request, saying the court docket may look into how the Justice Division reached its resolution and will require Performing Deputy Lawyer Basic Emil Bove, who first directed prosecutors to drop the case, to seem in court docket and clarify his place.Lastly, the choose would possibly appoint an unbiased particular prosecutor to proceed the case with entry to grand jury supplies and different proof, Akerman stated. He filed his letter as a lawyer for Widespread Trigger, a nonpartisan advocacy group for U.S. elections integrity.Adams has pleaded not responsible to fees that whereas in his prior position as Brooklyn borough president, he accepted over $100,000 in unlawful marketing campaign contributions and lavish journey perks from a Turkish official and enterprise leaders in search of to purchase his affect.Akerman’s request got here after an uncommon public struggle between Bove, the second-in-command of the Justice Division, and two high New York federal prosecutors: interim Manhattan U.S. Lawyer Danielle Sassoon and Hagan Scotten, an assistant U.S. legal professional in Manhattan who led the Adams prosecution.Video beneath: NY Mayor Eric Adams on indictment: ‘I sit up for defending myself’On Thursday, Sassoon resigned, together with 5 high-ranking Justice Division officers. A day later, Scotten resigned, noting that Sassoon had correctly resisted a requirement that the costs be dropped and the likelihood they may very well be reinstated after this 12 months’s election.”No system of ordered liberty can permit the Authorities to make use of the carrot of dismissing fees, or the stick of threatening to carry them once more, to induce an elected official to help its coverage targets,” he wrote.On Monday, Adams — amid calls to resign by some Democrats — confirmed that 4 of his high deputies had determined to resign within the fallout from the Justice Division’s push to finish the corruption case towards him and guarantee his cooperation with Trump’s immigration crackdown.In his letter to Ho, Akerman echoed Sassoon’s assertion that the Justice Division had accepted a request by Adams’ legal professionals for a “quid professional quo” — his assistance on immigration enforcement in alternate for dropping the case. She referred to as it a “breathtaking and harmful precedent.”Akerman wrote that there was “overwhelming proof from DOJ’s personal inside paperwork exhibiting that the dismissal of the Adams indictment isn’t within the public curiosity and is a part of a corrupt quid professional quo between Mayor Adams and the Trump administration.”He stated the inner paperwork present that in return for dismissal of the indictment, Adams agreed to improperly help the Trump administration with immigration enforcement.Adams’ lawyer, Alex Spiro, stated Thursday that the allegation of a quid professional quo was a “whole lie.”When he directed Sassoon to drop the costs per week in the past, Bove stated the mayor of America’s largest metropolis was wanted to help in Trump’s immigration crackdown and the dismissal of fees may allow Adams to marketing campaign for reelection towards a number of opponents unencumbered by felony fees.