The US Department of Justice has ordered the prosecutor’s office to abandon the corruption case against the Mayor of New York Eric Adams.
The executor of the Deputy Prosecutor General Emil Bove, who was appointed President Donald Trump, instructed the federal prosecutor in the South New York district to finish the case.
He claimed that the prosecution could affect the forthcoming Mary’s elections and stated that Adams had damaged the ability of Adams to resolve “illegal immigration and violent crime”.
Adams was accused of accepting the unlawful funds of the company and gifts of Turkish entrepreneurs of the mayor. He have not pleaded guilty Up to five charges of bribery, conspiracy and violations of the campaign in September.
“You are directed, as allowed by the Attorney General to dismiss the expected allegations,” the prosecutor’s office said in Bove’s note.
This leaves open opportunities to consider the case after the mayor in November 2025, but it states that there is still no further “following actions”.
It also states that the prosecutor’s office should “take all steps within your strength to force the restoration of the Adamso mayor.”
The prosecutors did not point out whether they intend to abandon the case on demand. Any decision to do so should be officially submitted to court and approved by the judge.
The note hosted a registered meeting between Adams’ lawyers and federal prosecutors in New York.
Adams, Democrat, recently crossed to establish closer relationships with Trump and his administration. Last month, he attended the president’s inauguration and also flew to Florida for a meeting.
Adams said he had never talked to President Trump about his corruption.
From these meetings, Adams ordered the city law enforcement agencies to cooperate with the federal immigration bodies on New York raids. Critics say it undermines local New York The shrine of the city The laws that direct city leaders not cooperate with the authorities unless they seek to arrest dangerous criminals.
Bove emphasizes Adams’s need in the future, and he claims that the corruption case restricted the mayor’s ability to fulfill “immigration goals set by President Trump”.
The note also states that Adams was aimed at the Ministry of Justice under former President Joe Biden about the past criticism of Adams’ immigration policy.
Bove has not provided any evidence confirming this requirement.
Boova, who once worked as a prosecutor in the South District, and recently as a defender of Trump during the presidential criminal trial, makes it clear last year that the justice case wanted to stop the case without assessing the force of evidence and legal theories. “
In Bove’s memoirs, he writes that this order is not a problem of the case, its merits or the integrity of prosecutors and office.
Instead, he emphasizes the importance of Trump’s executive orders regarding the alleged “armed weapon of the federal government” and illegal immigration, and he claims that Adams’ case affects both orders.
