The New York Times5d
Adams Case Highlights: Justice Dept. Asks Judge to Dismiss Case, Capping Days of Drama
Jonah E. Bromwich Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Alyce McFadden Federal prosecutors in Washington asked a judge to drop charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York on Friday, after several of their ...
The New York Times4d
Adams Forcefully Resists Calls to Resign: ‘I Am Going Nowhere’
Mayor Eric Adams spoke at two Black churches in Queens and pushed back at those who “are dancing on my grave.” By Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Sean Piccoli Whenever Mayor Eric Adams has faced ...
The New York Times6d
Adams’s Lead Prosecutor Quits Defiantly: ‘It Was Never Going to Be Me’
Bromwich Benjamin Weiser and William K. Rashbaum Hagan Scotten, the lead prosecutor on the federal corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York City, resigned after Justice Department ...
The New York Times6d
Adams May Avoid a Criminal Trial. He Still Faces Political Peril.
The criminal case against Mayor Eric Adams may be in jeopardy, but his political future now seems more imperiled amid heightened calls for his resignation or dismissal. By Emma G. Fitzsimmons When ...
New York Post5d
Feds formally move to toss Adams corruption charges after wave of resignations protesting Trump DOJ order to drop case
Federal prosecutors formally moved to toss the historic corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams Friday following a wave of resignations in protest of the Justice Department’s orders for the ...
The New York Times6d
Eric Adams Highlights Coordination With Trump’s Border Czar on Fox News
Mayor Eric Adams, appearing alongside the border czar, Tom Homan, said he would work with the Trump administration on immigration as he faces calls to resign over his cooperation. By Emma G.
The New York Times6d
Why Prosecutors Accused Their Bosses of Offering Adams a Quid Pro Quo
The federal prosecutor who received orders to drop charges against Eric Adams said that the Trump administration was seeking the mayor’s cooperation on immigration enforcement. By Michael ...
ABC News5d
Timeline of how Eric Adams' bribery case led to resignations of federal prosecutors
Adams is up for reelection this year and faced calls to step down. The federal case against Eric Adams has gone through a roller coaster of events since he became the first sitting New York City ...
The New York Times6d
How the Justice Dept. Helped Sink Its Own Case Against Eric Adams
A top Trump appointee guided Mr. Adams’s legal team as they crafted an argument for dismissing corruption charges against the mayor of America’s largest city. By Michael S. Schmidt William K.
The New York Times6d
Judges Generally Let Prosecutors Drop Charges. Maybe Not for Adams.
The corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York may be the exception. On Thursday, Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, Danielle R. Sassoon, resigned rather than obey an order to seek ...
The New York Times4d
In Moving to Stop Adams Case, Career Lawyer Sought to Stave Off Deeper Crisis
Two lawyers needed to step forward to sign a request to dismiss corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York. An earlier call with the section’s supervisors had gone badly.
The New York Times4d
All the President’s Sock Puppets
And this round probably won’t be the last. In instructing the Southern District to drop the case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York, Emil Bove III, the acting deputy attorney general ...