In addition to his public day by day schedules, which record press conferences and different occasions, the mayor retains detailed inner calendars with particulars on non-public conferences and appointments. Usually, dozens of staffers within the mayor’s workplace are capable of entry these calendar entries for planning functions.
However two metropolis officers with direct data of the matter, who spoke on situation of anonymity, mentioned entry to the detailed schedule entries was minimize off on Feb. 6 for dozens of junior and mid-level staffers.
It’s unclear why Adams’ workplace peeled again entry or who’s nonetheless capable of view the inner calendars. Spokespeople for Adams didn’t return requests for remark.
The entry was restricted as conversations have been underway between Adams’ authorized workforce and President Trump’s Division of Justice about dropping his corruption indictment. Days after the entry cutoff, the DOJ took the extremely controversial step of transferring to drop the case.
On the day the schedule entry was restricted, Adams traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend a Nationwide Prayer Day breakfast the place Trump delivered remarks.
President Trump speaks in the course of the Nationwide Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Picture/Evan Vucci)
Mark Burns, a controversial South Carolina pastor shut with Trump, wrote on Instagram the day of the breakfast that Adams was his visitor to the occasion, an invite confirmed by the mayor’s workplace.
Additionally on the time, Adams’ workplace mentioned Tiffany Raspberry, the mayor’s intergovernmental affairs director, was making an attempt to arrange conferences between Adams and Trump administration officers whereas he was in Washington, D.C.
On this Nov. 30, 2015 picture, Pastor Mark Burns speaks to members of the media exterior Trump Tower in New York. (AP Picture/Richard Drew, File)
A couple of days later, on Feb. 10, Trump’s Justice Division despatched a unprecedented memo to the Manhattan U.S. legal professional’s workplace directing it to dismiss the indictment charging Adams with taking bribes and unlawful marketing campaign money, largely from Turkish authorities officers, in trade for political favors.
The memo included a extremely uncommon caveat saying the DOJ ought to evaluate Adams’ case for re-prosecution after November’s mayoral election. It additionally mentioned the DOJ needs to drop Adams’ case so he can extra simply assist implement Trump’s hardline efforts to deport undocumented immigrants residing in New York.
The memo has touched off a disaster on the Manhattan U.S. legal professional’s workplace and in Adams’ administration.
The workplace’s performing head, interim U.S. Legal professional Danielle Sassoon, and a prime prosecutor in her workplace resigned in protest, saying they couldn’t act on the Trump DOJ’s dismissal request on account of issues they’d violate guidelines towards letting political points affect prosecutions. Trump’s DOJ leaders in Washington, D.C. then took management of the case and filed a movement to dismiss Friday evening that’s pending approval from Manhattan Federal Courtroom Decide Dale Ho.
4 of Adams’ deputy mayors, meantime, submitted resignations this week over issues about how the case dismissal might affect his capability to manipulate independently.
Initially Revealed: February 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM EST
