A federal judge has ruled that a bribery charge against New York City Mayor Eric Adams will proceed to trial. The judge determined that the indictment against Adams sufficiently details the alleged bribery crimes.
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that he won't dismiss a bribery charge against New York Mayor Eric Adams because prosecutors adequately described the allegations in an indictment. Judge Dale E. Ho wrote in an opinion that the indictment unsealed against the Democrat in September sufficiently details alleged bribery crimes, preventing dismissal of the charge prior to an April trial.
Adams has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges stemming largely from his relationships with several Turkish government officials and businesspeople from 2015 to 2022. The indictment alleged that he accepted tens of thousands of dollars in overseas travel benefits and illegal campaign donations from people seeking to buy his influence. The indictment accused him of exploiting a relationship with the Turkish officials and businesspeople that he developed after he became Brooklyn Borough president in January 2014. He became mayor in January 2022. In his opinion, Ho rejected a request by defense lawyers for Adams to toss out a bribery count that alleged that from the summer of 2021 to the summer of 2022, Adams received free and heavily discounted luxury travel benefits from a Turkish official and others in exchange for wielding his influence to their benefit. Defense lawyers had argued that the indictment’s language was too vague to adequately describe the crime of bribery and that Adams never exercised formal governmental power in the manner that the law requires. They also claimed Adams did not have formal authority over city fire officials when he was alleged to have pressured them to issue a temporary certificate of occupancy to the Turkish Consulate for what was described as the Turkish House, a newly constructed skyscraper that serves as headquarters to multiple Turkish diplomatic missions
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