The NYC mayor’s assertion was in response to a declare within the resignation letter of Danielle Sassoon, the previous performing Manhattan U.S. legal professional.
New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams on Feb. 14 rejected allegations of a quid professional quo take care of the Division of Justice (DOJ) to have his prison corruption case dismissed in alternate for his help for the Trump administration’s efforts to deal with the unlawful immigrant disaster gripping New York Metropolis.
“I need to be crystal clear with New Yorkers: I by no means supplied—nor did anybody provide on my behalf—any commerce of my authority as your mayor for an finish to my case. By no means,” Adams stated in an announcement. “I’m solely beholden to the 8.3 million New Yorkers that I characterize and I’ll at all times put this metropolis first.”
Adams’s assertion got here in response to a declare made in a resignation letter from Danielle Sassoon, the now former performing Manhattan’s U.S. legal professional who stop after refusing a request from Appearing Deputy Lawyer Basic Emil Bove to drop the prison corruption case towards Adams.
Sassoon alleged that, throughout a Jan. 31 assembly, Adams’s attorneys “repeatedly urged what amounted to a quid professional quo” association whereby the mayor would help with the Trump administration’s enforcement priorities with regard to unlawful immigrants in New York Metropolis “provided that the indictment have been dismissed.”
Prosecutors indicted Adams in October 2024, accusing him of accepting over $100,000 in marketing campaign contributions and luxurious presents from overseas nationals in alternate for political favors. Adams has denied the allegations, which embrace bribery, wire fraud, conspiracy, and falsifying monetary information.
After Sassoon’s resignation, the Division of Justice (DOJ) formally moved to dismiss the case on Feb. 14 however with out prejudice, that means the fees could possibly be refiled at a later date.
Numerous different DOJ officers adopted Sassoon in tendering their resignations relatively than complying with Bove’s order to dismiss the corruption case towards Adams.
Bove, a former lawyer who represented President Donald Trump in a number of circumstances and beforehand labored on the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the Southern District of New York, on Feb. 10 directed federal prosecutors in Manhattan to dismiss the fees towards Adams. He alleged prosecutorial mishandling of the case, in addition to considerations in regards to the case’s impression on Adams’s skill to manipulate as mayor and help in federal immigration enforcement efforts.
In a letter accepting Sassoon’s resignation, Bove additionally referred to as the case towards Adams politically motivated, stating that the investigation was “accelerated after Mayor Adams publicly criticized President Biden’s failed immigration insurance policies.”
In the meantime, Adams on Feb. 13 introduced he would permit federal immigration officers to function on the metropolis’s Rikers Island jail and assist the Trump administration arrest and deport unlawful immigrants with prison information of violent offenses. He made the announcement following a closed-door assembly with Tom Homan, who’s Trump’s level man on the unlawful immigration crackdown. Adams’s announcement signaled a shift in New York Metropolis’s sanctuary insurance policies, which have impeded immigration enforcement efforts.
Homan appeared on “Fox & Mates” alongside Adams on Feb. 14, commending Adams for granting entry to Rikers, a transfer Homan described as a “recreation changer.” He added that he and Adams have been engaged on different initiatives, though he declined to supply specifics, citing considerations that the town council would attempt to block it.
Through the interview, Homan additionally stated that if Adams “doesn’t come via” on his dedication to help with immigration enforcement, he would return to New York and maintain Adams to process.
