WASHINGTON, D.C. –  Today, Campaign for Accountability (CfA), which in February asked the Attorney Grievance Committee in New York to investigate whether Acting Deputy US Attorney General Emil Bove violated myriad New York Rules of Professional Conduct through his involvement in an apparent Donald Trump-Eric Adams quid pro quo scheme, received notice from the committee that it has declined to investigate Bove’s actions, instead referring the complaint to the Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR).

CfA Executive Director Michelle Kuppersmith said, “This is a farce. Rather than acting on a matter clearly within its jurisdiction, the Attorney Grievance Committee has decided to punt. This dereliction of duty is even more disgraceful given the obvious reality that OPR, in its current form, will do exactly nothing to hold any figures still in the good graces of the Trump administration accountable.”

Following its complaint to the Attorney Grievance Committee, CfA already sent a separate complaint to the OPR, but did so before the administration pushed out Jeffrey Ragsdale, OPR’s counsel who was widely regarded as independent. CfA has yet to receive a response from OPR on that original complaint.

Campaign for Accountability is a nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog organization that uses research, litigation, and aggressive communications to expose misconduct and malfeasance in public life and hold those who act at the expense of the public good accountable for their actions.