The Justice Department’s order directs that the case be dismissed without prejudice.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams departs after attending New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch’s “State of the NYPD” address in New York City on January 30, 2025. NEW YORK — The Trump administration on Monday ordered federal prosecutors to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, arguing in a remarkable departure from longstanding norms that the case was interfering with the mayor’s ability to aid the president’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
The intervention and reasoning — that a powerful defendant could be too occupied with official duties to face accountability for alleged crimes — marked an extraordinary deviation from long-standing Justice Department norms, which typically afford independence to federal prosecutors. A spokesperson for the Southern District of New York prosecutors who had been ordered to drop the charges, Nicholas Biase, declined to comment.
Trump, who was convicted last year of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment, has previously expressed solidarity with Adams. Prosecutors also said they had evidence of Adams personally directing campaign staffers to solicit foreign donations, then disguising those contributions in order to qualify for a city program that provides a generous, publicly-funded match for small dollar donations. Foreign nationals are banned from contributing to U.S. election campaigns under federal law.
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