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The New York Times reports:
Federal prosecutors in Washington formally asked a judge on Friday to drop corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York City after the acting U.S. attorney in Manhattan resigned in the face of an order to carry out the request.
The prosecutors, Emil Bove III, Edward Sullivan and Antoinette T. Bacon, filed the request with Judge Dale E. Ho, who is overseeing the mayor’s case in Manhattan federal court, where Mr. Adams was indicted last year on five counts that included bribery, fraud and soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations.
Mr. Bove, the acting deputy attorney general, “concluded that dismissal is necessary because of appearances of impropriety and risks of interference with the 2025 elections in New York City,” the prosecutors said in a four-page motion to Judge Ho.
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DOJ officially moves to drop Eric Adams case. https://t.co/rlwWz3gv5K pic.twitter.com/MPKOg1pioc
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February 14, 2025
Eric Adams line prosecutor Hagan Scotten, submitting his resignation rather than filing “dismissal-with-leverage” motion:
“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”
Via… pic.twitter.com/941vGrJzYs
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) February 14, 2025