Three additional federal prosecutors who worked on Mayor Eric Adams’ now-dismissed corruption case chose to resign on Tuesday rather than express regret for refusing to comply with a Trump Justice Department (DOJ) objective to dismiss the charges, according to an email they sent a top DOJ official.
The three prosecutors — Celia Cohen, Andrew Rohrbach, and Derek Wikstrom — said they are leaving the US Attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York rather than follow Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s “precondition” for keeping their posts. They said Blanche had demanded that they “admit wrongdoing” in refusing a February order from another top DOJ official — Emil Bove — to drop Adams’ charges in order to be taken off of administrative leave and return to work.
