{"id":6185,"date":"2025-02-15T07:20:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T07:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/federal-prosecutors-in-n-y-officially-move-to-dismiss-mayor-eric-adams-criminal-case\/"},"modified":"2025-02-15T07:20:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T07:20:30","slug":"federal-prosecutors-in-n-y-officially-move-to-dismiss-mayor-eric-adams-criminal-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/federal-prosecutors-in-n-y-officially-move-to-dismiss-mayor-eric-adams-criminal-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal prosecutors in N.Y. officially move to dismiss Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 criminal case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Federal prosecutors in Manhattan filed a motion<\/a> Friday <\/strong>to dismiss New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption case<\/a>caving to pressure from the Justice Department to drop criminal charges against the mayor.<\/p>\n

In a memo to federal prosecutors on Feb. 10, acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove asked for Adams’ case to be dismissed without prejudice<\/a>arguing that the indictment in September is too close to the upcoming New York City mayoral primary in June. Bove also claimed that the criminal charges against Adams — which he pleaded not guilty to in September — hindered the mayor’s ability to work with President Donald Trump to crack down on immigrants and fight crime in New York.<\/p>\n

Bove’s memo sparked something of a revolt within the Justice Department. Danielle Sassoon, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and at least six other federal prosecutors have resigned<\/a> over the DOJ directive.<\/p>\n

Sassoon told U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in a letter<\/a> dated Feb. 12 that in a meeting last month with Bove and Adams’ attorney Alex Spiro, the mayor’s legal team “repeatedly urged what amounted to a quid pro quo, indicating that Adams would be in a position to assist with Department’s enforcement priorities only if the indictment were dismissed.” Bove also “admonished a member of my team who took notes during that meeting and directed the collection of those notes at the meeting’s conclusion,” Sassoon wrote.<\/p>\n

Spiro and Bove have denied Sassoon’s allegation<\/a> of engaging in a quid pro quo. Adams said in a statement Friday that he has “never offered — nor did anyone offer on my behalf — any trade of my authority as your mayor for an end to my case.”<\/p>\n

Adams and Spiro have framed Bove’s request for the case’s dismissal as proof of his innocence. But the charges against the mayor have not yet vanished. A federal judge will review the motion for dismissal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Clarissa-je Lim<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Clarissa-Jan Lim is a breaking\/trending news blogger for BLN Digital. She was previously a senior reporter and editor at BuzzFeed News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Federal prosecutors in Manhattan filed a motion Friday to dismiss New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption casecaving to pressure from the Justice Department to drop criminal charges against the mayor. In a memo to federal prosecutors on Feb. 10, acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove asked for Adams’ case to be dismissed without prejudicearguing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}