A federal judge has permanently rejected the criminal case against the mayor of New York City Eric Adam
This step led to the resignation of senior prosecutors in Manhattan, who accused Adams of concluding a deal with the Trump administration to reject his case in exchange for enforcing immigration.
Manhattan’s judge rejected the case “with bias”, which means that the Ministry of Justice could not revive the charges against Adams based on the same evidence.
Adams was charged with conspiracy, fraud, and seeking the contributions of the illegal campaign and bribery. He denied any violations.
In an indictment last September, it was claimed that Adams had accepted the gifts that total more than $ 100,000 (75,000 pounds) of citizens of citizens in exchange for preferences.
On Wednesday’s ruling, the American boycott judge, Del, said that the Ministry of Justice did not object to a proposal from Adams in an effort to obtain the permanent separation of the case.
The judge said that he rejects the case permanently because allowing federal public prosecutors to revive the case in the future “will create a perception that cannot be avoided that the mayor’s freedom depends on his ability to implement the priorities of migration enforcement in administration, and that it may be more owned by the demands of the federal government more than his desires in its own components.”
In February, Acting Deputy Prosecutor Emile Bouv ordered the New York prosecutors to drop the case against Adams, under the pretext of “restricting” the mayor’s ability to address “illegal immigration and violent crime” – the main goal of the Trump administration.
But the former Public Prosecutor of Manhattan, Daniel Sasson, refused to do so.
In a letter to the President of Bouv, Prosecutor Bam Bondi, she claimed that the mayor’s team had provided “what has reached a professional interest”, saying that Adams would be able to help in administration policies “only if the indictment is rejected.”
Sasson and six other high -level justice officials resigned due to the controversy, saying that there is no legal justification to reject the Adams case.
After the verdict, Alex Spiro, the lawyer of the mayor Adams, said the case “should not have been brought in the first place.” “From the first day, the mayor maintained his innocence, and Justice has now prevailed for Eric Adams and the New York residents.”
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