
Ava Benny-Morrison
@avabmorrison
Bloomberg @business legal reporter covering SDNY | Author of The Lost Girls @HarperCollinsAU | @columbiajourn alum | [email protected] 🇦🇺 in 🇺🇸
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08-09-2010 06:30:00
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DOJ leadership has put all Public Integrity Section lawyers into a room with 1 hour to decide who will dismiss Adams indictment or else all will be fired. Sending them strength to stand by their oath, which is to support the Constitution, not the president’s political agenda. 🇺🇸

One of the SDNY prosecutors on the Mayor Eric Adams case, Hagan Scotten, has resigned in an email to Acting DAG Emil Bove “…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.”




NEW: While Emil Bove was at SDNY, leaders of the office conducted an internal inquiry into his management of the terrorism unit. They initially concluded that he should be demoted from his position as co-chief, but never followed through with the demotion. politico.com/news/2025/02/2…


Lawyers for ex Barclays boss Jes Staley argued that the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein had “the most remarkable network of contacts”, as they kicked off a court challenge against his lifetime ban from financial services Jonathan Browning bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

He was peacemaker at Apollo. Now he's gearing up for one of the hottest seats in American law as the sheriff of Wall Street. Sridhar Natarajan & I explore what a SDNY under Jay Clayton will look like as the office reels from DC’s handling of Eric Adams case bloomberg.com/news/features/…

American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…



A state judge in Wisconsin was arrested Friday by federal agents after an investigation into whether she obstructed an immigration arrest last week bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics


Representatives for Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his companies met Trump administration officials about dismissing the criminal charges levied against him in an overseas bribery probe with Tom Schoenberg and P. R. Sanjai bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics

Trump's embrace of his pardon powers has powerful people lining up with appeals, trying to use the president's personal grievances to their advantage. A look at the fees and strategies embraced in today’s feverish clemency market w/ Bill Allison bloomberg.com/news/features/… Bloomberg

A pardon in the United States in 2025? That'll cost you $1 million. "It’s signed," Trump told one executive who'd been convicted of fraud. "You’re cleaner than a baby’s bottom, you’re cleaner than I am." The goods from Ava Benny-Morrison and Bill Allison bloomberg.com/news/features/…


