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NYC Mayor Adams new bid to get corruption case tossed alleges misconduct by prosecutors who stop in protest
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NYC Mayor Adams new bid to get corruption case tossed alleges misconduct by prosecutors who stop in protest

Last updated: February 26, 2025 5:07 pm
Editorial Board Published February 26, 2025
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Mayor Adams on Wednesday filed a movement to get his public corruption case completely dismissed, making an attempt a special route as a decide considers a extremely controversial movement from the Division of Justice to throw it out so he can help the Trump administration’s hardline deportation agenda.

In a brand new movement, Adams’ lawyer Alex Spiro alleged that “the government’s conduct has destroyed whatever presumption of innocence Mayor Adams had left,” referring to disclosures by former interim Manhattan U.S. Lawyer Danielle Sassoon, who resigned as a substitute of following orders from the DOJ to desert the prosecution.

Earlier than quitting, Sassoon advised U.S. Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi in an inner letter that Adams ought to face extra fees for making an attempt to cowl up his crimes from the FBI. She alleged the deal between Adams and the Trump administration amounted to a “quid pro quo” that will wipe his slate clear in alternate for giving Trump free rein to hold out deportations within the nation’s largest sanctuary metropolis. 

The feds maintained the best to revisit the case “without prejudice” after this yr’s mayoral election, sparking considerations Adams can be beholden to Trump’s deportation agenda.

One of many lead prosecutors dealing with the case who resigned shortly after Sassoon, former Assistant U.S. Lawyer Hagan Scotten, in his resignation letter, stated the DOJ would wish to search out one other “fool” or “coward” to ask the courtroom to dismiss the case with prejudice, which means it could possibly be introduced once more. 

Spiro referred to as the allegations “wildly inflammatory and false” and stated the widely-reported correspondence had “turbocharged the prejudice to Mayor Adams.”

“Simply put, the government’s conduct has destroyed whatever presumption of innocence Mayor Adams had left,” he wrote Wednesday.

“The most appropriate recourse is to dismiss this case now and do so with prejudice. That is true based on this latest leak alone and independent of the fact that the government itself wants nothing to do with these meritless charges and has moved to dismiss them.”

Manhattan Federal Choose Dale Ho on Friday appointed an impartial lawyer to organize adversarial arguments within the matter and to analysis what would occur if he refused the dismissal request, which was filed by Trump’s appearing No. 2 on the DOJ Emil Bove after Sassoon and Scotten stop.

The movement stated it was not based mostly on Adams’ innocence or guilt however a necessity for him to assist the president’s crackdown on undocumented immigration unimpeded, amongst different causes those that resigned referred to as baseless. The prospect of the case going away quickly whereas Adams, in impact, fingers Trump the keys to the town has led to requires the mayor’s elimination from workplace and allegations he’s sacrificing the town’s immigrant communities to save lots of his personal pores and skin.

Within the political fallout, 4 of his deputy mayors have resigned, and Gov. Hochul, going through strain to take away him, introduced new “ethics guardrails” that will curtail his powers and ramp up oversight of his workplace.

Adams, 64, has pleaded not responsible to 5 counts carrying as much as 45 years in jail, alleging he traded his political affect to rich overseas businessmen in or with ties to the Turkish authorities for some 10 years.

The indictment additional accuses him of soliciting and accepting unlawful marketing campaign donations from his benefactors, beginning round 2018, when he determined to run for mayor. The case alleged that these donations had been funneled by U.S. residents to masks their origins and maximized with taxpayer {dollars} by the town’s public matching funds program. 

Adams allegedly repaid his money owed by pulling strings for his benefactors, together with meddling in a Manhattan skyscraper’s hearth security rules to appease Turkey’s authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. 

This story will probably be up to date.

 

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