7th prosecutor resigns amid DOJ turmoil: 'You’ll find enough of a fool' — but it won't be me
On Friday, February 14, the news broke that federal prosecutor Hagan Scotten is resigning from the U.S. Department of Justice in response to the Trump Administration's interference in the case against Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
Scotten, leaving the Southern District of New York, is the seventh federal prosecutor to resign from DOJ because of that interference. DOJ is now led by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, a Donald Trump loyalist.
In his strongly worded resignation letter, Scotten declared, "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 never going to be me."
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Scotten noted his refusal to "dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice."
Scotten wrote, "No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives."
Crooked Media's Jon Favreau, posting Scotten's resignation letter on X, formerly Twitter, said of the federal prosecutor, "This guy got two Bronze stars in Iraq and clerked for Roberts before landing at SDNY."
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Read Hagan Scotten's full resignation letter below or at this link.
