US justice department tells prosecutors to drop Eric Adams case

The US Department of Justice has requested the federal prosecutors to drop the issue of corruption against the mayor of New York City Eric Adams.

The prosecutor’s deputy public prosecutor, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, said that the indictment was “restricting” the mayor’s ability to address “illegal immigration and violent crime” in the city.

Adams, a democratic, built a closer relationship with Trump, a Republican, and ordered the law to enforce cooperation with the president’s raids. But he denies speaking to Trump about his case.

The mayor is accused of accepting the money and gifts of the illegal campaign in exchange for its influence as a mayor. He admitted that he was not guilty of five charges.

Public prosecutors have not yet commented to indicate whether they intend to drop the case as required. Any decision to do this must be submitted officially to the court and approved by the judge.

“You have been directed, according to what is designed by the Public Prosecutor, to reject the suspended charges,” read the memo of the Attorney General to Attorney General Emile Bove.

The memo adds that the case can be reviewed again after the November 2025 mayor elections, but it says that the “investigation steps” should not be taken until then.

The public prosecutors also asks to “take all steps within your safety to cause the mayor’s security permit to be restored.”

Bouv, who worked as Trump’s defense lawyer during his criminal trial last year, wrote that the Ministry of Justice “reached this conclusion without assessing the strength of evidence or legal theories on which the case is based.”

He said that this step “does not in any way call for questioning the integrity and efforts of” the general prosecutors who brought the case.

The memo pursued a meeting that was reported between Adams’s lawyers and federal prosecutors in New York.

Adams attended the presidential opening last month and also went to Florida to attend a meeting with Trump.

In recent weeks, 64 -year -old mayor has directed the city enforcement in the city to cooperate with federal immigration authorities in the new New York City raids. Critics say this undermines the laws of the local sanctuary city, which directs the city leaders not to cooperate with the authorities unless it aims to arrest serious criminals.

Before the elections, Trump said that he and Adams were “persecuted” because of their conversation with immigration policies in Trump’s presidential predecessor, Joe Biden.

“It cannot be ignored that Mayor Adams criticized the immigration policies of the previous administration before providing charges,” says the Ministry of Justice.

According to the 57 -page accusation list against the mayor in September, it is claimed that Adams has accepted illegal gifts of more than $ 100,000 (75,000 pounds) from Turkish citizens and at least one government official.

On the other hand, it is believed that Turkish officials have sought the mayor’s allocations, including helping safety regulations open a consulate in New York, according to the prosecutors.

Professor Stephen Gillers, an expert in legal ethics at the University of New York University’s Law, told Bouv that the POV note that orders the case was “once baseless and degrading against the former American lawyer and the lawyers who worked in the Adams case.”

Meanwhile, the mayor’s lawyer said he was a victory for his client. “As I said from the beginning, the mayor is innocent – he will prevail. Today he has,” said Alex Spiro.