Eric Adams's attorneys to Judge Dale Ho: "There was no quid pro quo. Period." Eric Adams's attorneys to acting DAG Emil Bove: - ThreadSky

joshuajfriedman.com • 4 days ago

Eric Adams's attorneys to Judge Dale Ho: "There was no quid pro quo. Period."

Eric Adams's attorneys to acting DAG Emil Bove:

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minerva1.bsky.social•4 days ago

Adams: Trump can have NYPD if he will stop my trial.

asfried.bsky.social•4 days ago

Someone needs to start a bar complaint.

goldnmyear.bsky.social•3 days ago

Hope Bondi loses her license

drobertsimg.bsky.social•4 days ago

Alas, according to Citizens United and other recent SCOTUS cases, it basically takes a suitcase of cash to constitute a quid pro quo.

Fortunately, that hasn’t stopped DOJ’s FCPA Unit from taking a broader view. Now, to take a sip of scalding hot coffee and reading Bondi’s Day One memos…

julie90.bsky.social•4 days ago

Kind of a hard case to make with Homan bragging about it on national TV.

randyhermanlaw.com•4 days ago

If we survive this thing, it will be because they are all so stupid and can't stop running their mouths

afterdarkalex.bsky.social•4 days ago

kinda like homan getting on tv and saying they’ll prosecute aoc “because she’s stupid”

randyhermanlaw.com•4 days ago

My private theory is that Homan has a huge crush on AOC and this is the equivalent of pulling her pigtails

julie90.bsky.social•4 days ago

Homan looks exactly like the type of guy who would think that works. 😅

afterdarkalex.bsky.social•4 days ago

He looks like a mumbling thumb

randyhermanlaw.com•4 days ago

He is a lunk. He has spent his entire life working for border patrol. Just a thug in a suit.

afterdarkalex.bsky.social•4 days ago

Definitely more likely than not

suannelqr.bsky.social•4 days ago

My theory is he has fantasies of spanking her for being rude to daddy.

dqkennard.bsky.social•3 days ago

Or vice versa.

randyhermanlaw.com•4 days ago

Gross

lexophile.bsky.social•4 days ago

It’s NOT a quid pro quo. He scratched my back, I scratched his.

svenpeake.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yeah.
"No quid pro quo" usually translates as "Big quid pro quo!"

burnsieann.bsky.social•4 days ago

Firstly, my jaw dropped upon read these.

Secondly, I think they will need a MUCH bigger clown car!

thelordgod.bsky.social•4 days ago

Won't they be surprised when they see the video of Homan telling Eric he better play ball or else...

nathansolo.bsky.social•4 days ago

I’m sorry. In Philadelphia, he’d already be out of office. NYers must just be soft as hell. 🤣

cpo10za.bsky.social•4 days ago

We don’t have a mechanism for voters to recall/remove our mayor. (Which is ridiculous, yes.) Only options are for the governor to remove the mayor, or a sort of committee to be formed via City Council, with some complicated rules that don’t guarantee his removal.

nathansolo.bsky.social•4 days ago

I’m not saying our mechanisms are better. I’m saying that the pushback for this would be strong enough, from citizens and city council, that he would not remain in office.

goldnmyear.bsky.social•3 days ago

There’s been a lot of pushback but there is a complication with a special election if Adams is fired now

nathansolo.bsky.social•3 days ago

True, it’s best not to push him out, because then no primary, and republicans could put him back in

apearlma.bsky.social•4 days ago

"it was on background, i most certainly asked them to not quo me on that"

shoutingboy.bsky.social•4 days ago

"There was no quid pro quo. I simply observed that my stress about my daughter's college tuition made it difficult for me to perform job functions like approving construction permits."

nevergonnakneel.bsky.social•4 days ago

If there wasn’t than no such thing exists

elizabethistired.bsky.social•4 days ago

Madness

afterdarkalex.bsky.social•4 days ago

liar liar pants … on fire

joshuajfriedman.com•4 days ago

Alex Spiro letter to Judge Dale Ho: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.628916/gov.uscourts.nysd.628916.130.0.pdf

Alex Spiro letter to Emil Bove:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.628916/gov.uscourts.nysd.628916.130.1_1.pdf

burnsieann.bsky.social•4 days ago

And it keeps getting more and more ridiculous. 🫣

knars.bsky.social•4 days ago

Seems like disbarment might be an effective counter resolution

ryanwa.bsky.social•4 days ago

Exactly disbar Bove, Spiro and all lawyers who violated their unethical and criminal conduct. And refer them for criminal prosecution

adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com•4 days ago

How did the latter surface?

eukaryotex.bsky.social•4 days ago

Filed as an exhibit with the letter to the court!

adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com•4 days ago

Filed...by Spiro??

eukaryotex.bsky.social•4 days ago

Haha, yep! “Who are you gonna believe, judge? My filing, or your lying eyes as to the exhibit I’ve included with it?”

adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com•4 days ago

We are on some level beyond what the word farce is capable of expressing

connorlynch.bsky.social•4 days ago

Have I missed something or does this letter not address whether he consents to a “without prejudice” dismissal?

joshuajfriedman.com•4 days ago

Ah, separate filing: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.628916/gov.uscourts.nysd.628916.131.1_2.pdf

joshuajfriedman.com•4 days ago

Here's the cover note for that one: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.628916/gov.uscourts.nysd.628916.131.0_2.pdf

dmgaltieri.bsky.social•3 days ago

Feb 14…? Isn’t that after the fact?

Sassoon’s letter was Feb 10; Bove responded the next day that included the reference to Adams’s consent, no?

joshuajfriedman.com•3 days ago

I don't recall a reference to Adams's consent in Bove's letter to Sassoon—and I also don't see a problem in Adams giving his oral consent on one occasion and creating a written record of that consent later

connorlynch.bsky.social•4 days ago

How would the cloud that Spiro has conjured, which purportedly prevents Adams from doing mayor stuff, be lifted if the threat of charges remains

joshuajfriedman.com•4 days ago

The argument seems to be that the indictment may compel others to remove him from office (and also that other members of government don't want to work with him)

inwpublicdefender.bsky.social•3 days ago

The attorney is essentially trying to backdoor the Trump immunity ruling for Adams. "I'm acting in my official capacity when I take these actions that there is also evidence I said I'd take if DOJ drops the criminal charges filed against me in my personal capacity".

ryanwa.bsky.social•3 days ago

Exactly 👍

donwood.bsky.social•4 days ago

“ A quid pro quo would be wrong. Absolutely. But we are swimming in quo over here. Like, huge amounts of quo. Just sayin’."

ryanwa.bsky.social•4 days ago

Alex Spiro is clearly lying. He has engaged in a criminal enterprise to obstruct justice, thus violating his oath an attorney, warranting immediate disbarment, and criminal prosecution.

bullwinkles.bsky.social•4 days ago

Disbar them.

roxannedarling.bsky.social•4 days ago

Spiro is pushing the Overton window of “my statements don’t mean what they say” out to infinity. Someone speaking with forceful authority is all that matters. The actual meaning is becoming meaningless.

ryanwa.bsky.social•4 days ago

Year truly farcical and morally indefensible

chuckabear.bsky.social•3 days ago

Riiiiiiight

wcooper05.bsky.social•4 days ago

Digging with the world’s biggest backhoe.

veganspacemanspiff.bsky.social•4 days ago

"And Judge Ho: Whatever you do, don't watch the Fox News clip where I admit to a quid pro quo."
-Love, Eric

oraclestwin.bsky.social•4 days ago

Why is ANYONE believing a word from these liars?

q4nwspunk.bsky.social•4 days ago

Great defense 😳

ckquinnftw.bsky.social•4 days ago

There was most certainly a quid pro quo. Remember when Republicans accused Biden about abusing the DOJ? This trend of accusations turning out to be confessions spells awful things regarding their obsession with pedophiles.

canadauberalles.bsky.social•3 days ago

So someone is lying. Again.

pahkyahcah.bsky.social•4 days ago

People making deals with FOTUS now finding out

lexultimaveritas.bsky.social•4 days ago

Eric Adams and his co-conspirators are traitors to the United States of America. Fascism must never be allowed to flourish and must be crushed aggressively when it rises. No crime or violence — we’re the good guys. All else goes. Limits gone. Let’s fuck em all up forever.

lmhinh.bsky.social•4 days ago

No corruption but somehow a career civil servant can afford to hire Quinn Emanuel? A Co-chair too??

calizaybak.bsky.social•4 days ago

They literally confirmed in on a Fox News interview!

veryolympia.bsky.social•4 days ago

He's assuming Adams is as powerful as he thinks his overlords are.

He's not. This ain't Washington.

r5-to-philly.bsky.social•4 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/r5-to-philly.bsky.social/post/3lihjrodw7s2u

calizaybak.bsky.social•4 days ago

Now I'm not a law talking guy but that feels pretty quidy pro to me.

r5-to-philly.bsky.social•4 days ago

May it please the court to read the agreement Mr. Homan is holding over Mr. Adams head under thread of being in his ass

r5-to-philly.bsky.social•4 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/howlofminerva.bsky.social/post/3lihnkhaimc2y

calizaybak.bsky.social•4 days ago

Also Adams is a corrupt crook! He took bribes from Turkey! Why is that ignored?

dmgaltieri.bsky.social•3 days ago

“So far up his…” were his words

deborahbuddingphd.bsky.social•4 days ago

“We didn’t speak in Latin!
We just exchanged favors like normal human people do who definitely aren't day walking energy vampires”

bradiscranky.bsky.social•4 days ago

your honor i move for one of those bad court thingies

iamagrip.bsky.social•4 days ago

It doesn’t exist if you don’t know what it means. He doesn’t speak latin. Do you? How can he trust the translation? Also, he says it isn’t so it isn’t.