Justice Department asks court to dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams
Acting Deputy US Attorney General Emil Bove, the department’s second-in-command, and lawyers from the department’s public integrity section and criminal division in Washington filed paperwork seeking to end the case. A judge still has to approve the request.
At least seven prosecutors in New York and Washington resigned rather than follow Bove’s order to suspend the case, including ...
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The Trump administration has gutted the federal government’s ability to fight public corruption in a matter of weeks.
A crisis at the department over the Eric Adams case is an early test of the criminal justice system’s resilience against a ...
Bove said prosecutors indicted Adams too close to the election and may have targeted him because of his criticism of the ...
The U.S. Justice Department has sharply stepped back its anti-corruption efforts under President Donald Trump, from loosening ...
A top Trump appointee guided Mr. Adams’s legal team as they crafted an argument for dismissing corruption charges against the ...
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