In a filing, they said the investigation into the mayor began more than a year before he criticized the former president’s response to the migrant crisis.
In a filing, they said the investigation into the mayor began more than a year before he criticized the former president’s response to the migrant crisis.
In a filing, they said the investigation into the mayor began more than a year before he criticized the former president’s response to the migrant crisis.
Mayor Eric Adams has said it again and again: The federal corruption charges brought against him last year were payback for his criticism of President Biden’s handling of the migrant crisis.
Until Wednesday, the prosecutors who brought the indictment against the mayor — charging him with bribery, fraud, conspiracy and soliciting illegal foreign campaign contributions — had not provided a detailed response.
In a court filing, they pointed to what they called the mayor’s “shifting attempts to suggest that he was indicted for any reason other than his crimes.”
“At the outset of the case,” they wrote, “Adams contended that his indictment resulted from a policy disagreement with the prior presidential administration arising in October 2022.”
That claim, the prosecutors said, “disintegrated” when material turned over to defense lawyers in advance of the trial “made clear that the investigation into Adams began more than a year earlier, based on concrete evidence that Adams had accepted illegal campaign contributions.”
A spokeswoman for one of the mayor’s lawyers, Alex Spiro, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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