New York (AP) -Federal Judge rejected the corruption case of Mayor New York Eric Adams, who agreed with the Extraordinary Ministry of JusticePlease cancel the criminal caseThus, the Democrat can help with the repression of President Donald Trump’s immigration.
However, the judge denied the prosecutor’s office to potentially return the criminal case after the Mary’s election.Judge Dale E. HoTo reject the case with prejudice, it deprives Adams from managing in such a way that Trump or potentially risk revived by the Republican Justice Ministry.
The judge stated that he did not think about the merits of the case, but the courts could not force the prosecutors to move forward. He rejected that the alternative of the Ministry of Justicesought– Drop it “without harm” that would leave the place to send the charges.
“The deviation of this case without harm would create the inevitable perception that the mayor’s freedom depends on his ability to fulfill the priorities for the execution of the immigration administration, and that he could be more attracted to the demands of the federal government than on the wishes of his own voters,” the judge wrote.
The reports seeking the comments were sent to the prosecutor’s office, Adams and City Hall.
Ho’s decision stems from a legal drama that reworked the Ministry of Justice, created a shock to the mayor and left the mayor of Adams, who hung on the topic against his political independence and the ability to govern.
Several prosecutors in New York and Washington have resigned rather than complying with the Ministry of Justice’s directive to abandon the case against Adams. Governor Katiel wants, colleague -democrats,Thinking whether to delete Adamsfrom the office butdecided instead to offer new supervisionfor the city government.
At the hearing on February 19, Adams said, “I have not committed a crime.”
Adamshave not pleaded guiltyto bribery and other charges after2024. The chargeAccusing him of accepting illegal contributions of the company and discounts with the Turkish official and others – and returning services, among other things, helping Turkey open a diplomatic building without passing fire checks.
The case launched during the Presidential Administration Joe Biden was on the way to the April trial while the Trump Justice Departmentpassed to throw it. Waytightened the trialAnd appointed by former US General lawyer Paul Clement to help him decide what to do.
In a written performance on March 7, Clement said Ho that he had no choice but to dismiss the case. But he recommended that the judge reject the request of the Ministry of Justice to be able to subdue the allegations after the Mary’s election, which would leave the “Perspective hanging as a Damx’s ordinance over the accused.”
The decision comes from three months until the democratic basic, which is likely to choose the next mayor.
Adams is confrontedTell me that he is too obliged to Trump nowIn order for the New Yorkians to be sure he was pricing his interests. Adams said that “exclusively up to 8.3 million New York people I represent and I will always supply this city to first place.”
As recently on January 6, US lawyers’ assistants in New York, who were prosecuted by Adams, wrote in court work that they continued to “reveal additional criminal behavior of Adams.” But a month later, their new chief in Washington decided to abandon the case.
In court statements and hearings, Deputy Prosecutor General Emil Bove said that “especially concerned about the prosecution on the ability of the mayor of Adams to support Trump’s immigration. Bove also questioned the motives of the previous administration in search of Adams, who criticized Biden’s immigration.
The prosecutor of the Trump administration in New York, Daniel Sasson, resisted Bove’s order, saying that he could not defend the dismissal related to political considerations.
Sasson and several other career prosecutorsthrow rather than followOrder Bove.
After the four major deputies of Adams decided to resign in the mayor, he wanted to briefly see that he had taken an unprecedented step to displace the Mayor of New York. In the end, she came to the conclusion that it would be undemocratic and destructive.
Adams, a retired police captain and a former state legislator and a Brooklyn official, was elected in 2021 as a Central Democrat in one of the US liberal support. From the moment of their charges in Adams there aregrown a warmer relationshipWith Trump, saying that the mayor’s staff did not publicly criticize the president.
Adams insists that he is just looking for a city, having a working relationship with the administration.
Originally this story was presented on Fortune.com
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Jennifer Peltz, Michael R. Sisak, The Associated Press
