The Department of Justice moved earlier this year to drop criminal charges which had been brought against New York Mayor Eric Adams.

The decision not to prosecute Adams was recently condemned by several prosecutors who say it has forced them to resign. 

Trio says they will not "confess wrongdoing when there was none"

According to the Wall Street Journal, Celia V. Cohen, Derek Wikstrom, and Andrew Rohrbach voiced their complaints to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in a letter on Tuesday.

"It is now clear that one of the preconditions you have placed on our returning to the Office is that we must express regret and admit some wrongdoing by the Office in connection with the refusal to move to dismiss the case," their letter read.

Cohen, Wikstrom, and Rohrbach then went on to declare that they are not prepared to "confess wrongdoing when there was none."

Their departure comes two and a half months after Danielle Sassoon stepped down from her role as acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

DOJ accused Adams of accepting bribes from Turkey

Breitbart reported that Sassoon sent a letter of her own to Attorney General Pam Bondi in which denounced instructions from Blanche not to proceed against Adams.

She asserted that dropping Adams's charges would be "inconsistent with my ability and duty to prosecute federal crimes without fear or favor and to advance good-faith arguments before the courts."

What's more, Sassoon asserted that she was prepared to leave the Department of Justice (DOJ) if Bondi could not address her concerns regarding the case.

A DOJ press release from this past fall alleged that Adams had provided the government of Turkey with political favors in exchange for campaign donations and lavish overseas trips.

"As alleged, Mayor Adams abused his position as this City’s highest elected official, and before that as Brooklyn Borough President, to take bribes and solicit illegal campaign contributions," then U.S. Attorney Damian Williams stated.

Trump suggested that charges against Adams were politically motivated

Yet, President Donald Trump maintained that the mayor's indictment was simply a politically motivated attack launched by the Biden administration.

In his view, Adams was facing retaliation for having spoken out against President Joe Biden's failure to secure America's southern border.

"I watched about a year ago when he talked about how the illegal migrants are hurting our city and the federal government should pay us and we shouldn’t have to take them, and I said 'you know what, he’ll be indicted within the year' and I was exactly right," the Independent quoted Trump as saying.