In a speech, Mayor Eric Adams of New York did not address whether the Justice Department’s order that his federal corruption case be dropped would put him in the president’s debt.
In a speech, Mayor Eric Adams of New York did not address whether the Justice Department’s order that his federal corruption case be dropped would put him in the president’s debt.
In a speech, Mayor Eric Adams of New York did not address whether the Justice Department’s order that his federal corruption case be dropped would put him in the president’s debt.
Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll look at the continuing fallout from the Justice Department’s order to drop federal corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams. We’ll also get details on a plea deal for the longtime Trump adviser Stephen Bannon.
Mayor Eric Adams made it sound as if the federal corruption case against him had already been dismissed.
It has not. Danielle Sassoon, the acting head of the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan, still must decide whether to carry out an order from the No. 2 official in the Justice Department to drop the charges “as soon as is practicable.” That would involve filing a motion with Judge Dale Ho, who is overseeing the case in U.S. District Court in Manhattan and would have only limited power to reject it.
But Adams, in a six-minute speech from City Hall, sought to move past the charges that had clouded his administration for months. “I am no longer facing legal questions,” he said at one point, adding that he had been “dragged through this unfortunate prosecution.”
The order to drop the charges did not clear Adams of wrongdoing. Emil Bove III, the Justice Department official who sent the memo to Sassoon, noted that he had not assessed the evidence. He said his concern was that the case could interfere with the Democratic primary for mayor in June and the general election in November.
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