A Manhattan decide has struck down an effort by Mayor Adams’ administration to let federal immigration authorities function on Rikers Island, ruling the motion was ethically “impermissible” as a result of it got here on the heels of President Trump’s Division of Justice securing a extremely controversial dismissal of the mayor’s corruption indictment.
The hassle dates again to April 8, when Randy Mastro, Adams’ first deputy mayor, issued an government order that sought to let ICE brokers reopen an workplace on Rikers with the intention to conduct prison immigration enforcement on the metropolis lockup.
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FILE – The Rikers Island jail advanced in New York with the Manhattan skyline within the background. (AP Photograph/Seth Wenig, File)
The order infuriated Metropolis Council Democrats, who filed a lawsuit alleging it amounted to an unlawful favor Adams’ staff did for Trump in change for the president’s DOJ having simply days earlier quashed his prison case, arguing Adams’ prosecution was stopping the mayor from serving to advance Trump’s “mass deportation” agenda.
In a 7-page ruling launched Monday, Manhattan Supreme Courtroom Choose Mary Rosado sided with the Council Democtats’ argument, writing the Mastro order is “null and void” as a result of it flew within the face of metropolis legislation barring public officers from taking any actions on issues during which they might have a private battle.
“The timeline of public statements and the ongoing criminal prosecution so clearly demonstrate an impermissible appearance of a conflict of interest,” the decide wrote of the order. “The appearance of this conflict and Mayor Adams’ failure to recuse himself fully tainted the entire process.”
Spokespeople for the mayor didn’t instantly return requests for remark.
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