Sovereign District?

DOJ Dismissal of Eric Adams

By: Matthew Russell Lee

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

They used to have their own building, the Sovereign District of New York. Built in the same style as the notorious jail next to it, where Jeffrey Epstein died, it still stands but empty in front of NYPD's One Police Plaza.

The Southern District prosecutors now share 26 Federal Plaza with a plethora of other agencies. The building hired an outside security firm. One of their guards coerced a Burmese asylum seeker into sex in a second floor storage room.The Sovereign District let him plead out to false statements. It was unclear if the victim of the crime-that-went away was even notified, much less consented.

Similarly when SDNY prosecuted Patrick Ho of the China Energy Fund Committee for paying bribes inside the United Nations, they never charged any of the UN bribe takers, perhaps fearing a loss on the issue of diplomatic immunity. But what kind of sovereignty is that?

In 2025 former SDNY prosecutor Emil Bove, who signed a nolle prosequi after the Office's discovery abuses on a violator of Iran sanctions and whose subsequent representation in an anti-CCP case his former colleagues had tried to end, was now the number three at Main Justice. Bove returned to test the sovereignty of the district. To some it was like the horror movie "Carrie."

A carefully groomed new US Attorney, if only acting, took a photo in a courtroom with flag and then fell on her sword. Another, Hagan Scotten once accused by defense counsel for Rudy Giuliani ally Lev Parnas of making threats about sidearms and one bullet in the hallway of 40 Foley Square, took aim more directly at the Sovereign renegade, Bove.

Everyone will land on their feet, even as most of the convicted remain confined. But what does it mean to be sovereign?