Mayor Adams’ authorized protection belief, which he has used to cowl lawyer charges throughout his corruption case, continues to be greater than $3 million within the purple after not receiving any donations in six months — a debt that doesn’t embody the potential for newer payments from his costliest lawyer, new disclosures present.
The newest disclosures affirm Adams’ belief didn’t increase any funds over the newest reporting interval, which spanned April 1 to June 30. That comes after Adams didn’t absorb any donations within the window earlier than that, between Jan. 1 and March 31, per filings.
In the latest stretch, the Adams belief’s bills have been additionally comparatively low, clocking in at lower than $20,000, most of it paid to the regulation agency of Vito Pitta, the mayor’s compliance counsel. In whole, which means Adams is simply shy of $3.1 million in debt, the filings reveal.
The newest disclosure, nevertheless, doesn’t embody any disbursements to the regulation agency of Alex Spiro, the high-paid superstar lawyer who was Adams’ lead protection counsel throughout his corruption case and performed a key function in convincing President Trump’s Justice Division to quash the indictment as a part of a controversial deal this spring.
The final submitting protecting January-March didn’t embody any funds to Spiro, both.
Spiro was engaged on Adams’ protection all through the spring, no less than till Could, when he was concerned in discussions round how search warrant supplies from the case ought to be publicly launched after the mayor’s indictment was formally tossed.
The final time Adams’ belief did pay Spiro was in December 2024, when it disbursed $775,000 to his regulation agency to cowl authorized charges billed for that month, filings present.
Spiro didn’t return a request for remark Friday, and neither did Pitta.
The authorized money owed loom over the mayor as he faces an uphill battle in in search of a second time period.
Working as an impartial in November’s election, he’s polling effectively behind Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani. Adams’ approval scores are additionally at historic lows amid accusations he entered right into a corrupt cope with Trump to get his legal case quashed — a declare he denies.
Initially Revealed: August 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM EDT
