By Jose Pagliery
Proud prosecutors tend to talk about the defendants they sent to prison, not the ones who went free. Ryan Crosswell leads with the latter.
Crosswell is running for Congress in eastern Pennsylvania, and while knocking on doors there last week, he introduced himself to voters by explaining that he was one of the federal prosecutors who quit rather than agreeing to drop the criminal case against New York Mayor Eric Adams. Crosswell was a member of the Justice Department’s elite Public Integrity Section, which has been obliterated in all but name under the Trump administration. And now that he’s running for office, his years prosecuting public officials are his primary credentials for quickly gaining people’s trust, especially those who despair at President Donald Trump’s retaliatory firings of career government employees and what a federal judge in Boston last week lamented as a president who “simply ignores” the nation’s laws.
