Bribery case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams dropped by DOJ following Trump's unexpected intervention

New York City Mayor Eric Adams' ineligible troubles whitethorn beryllium over, aft Donald Trump's Justice Department asked national prosecutors to driblet his corruption case.

Adams was charged successful September with conspiracy to perpetrate ligament fraud, national programme bribery, and receiving run contributions from overseas nationals.

He is besides accused of defrauding NYC taxpayers of $10million done allegedly fraudulent run funds.

Adams pleaded not blameworthy astatine his arraignment and claimed helium has done thing incorrect aft becoming the archetypal politician successful the city's past to look transgression charges portion successful office.

Trump's Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove sent a memo to the Southern District of New York claiming that the erstwhile US lawyer for Manhattan charged Adams for his ain governmental gain.

Bove - who utilized to enactment for SDNY - claimed that Adams, a Democrat, was a unfortunate of Joe Biden's weaponized Department of Justice. 

He added that the timing of the charges and 'more caller actions' by the erstwhile U.S. lawyer who led the office, Damian Williams, 'have threatened the integrity of the proceedings, 'including by expanding prejudicial pretrial publicity that risks impacting imaginable witnesses and the assemblage pool.' 

The lawman AG did not effort to exonerate Adams but said that the charges were made arsenic an effort to propulsion the politician retired of bureau earlier helium faces a Democrat Primary adjacent June.

Bove claims that the charges should beryllium re-evaluated aft the 2026 election.

DailyMail.com has reached retired to the Mayor's Office and the Department of Justice for comment. 

The improvement comes aft months of speculation that Trump's Justice Department would instrumentality steps to extremity the transgression lawsuit against Adams, who was accused of accepting bribes of escaped oregon discounted question and amerciable run contributions.

Trump had hinted astatine the anticipation of a pardon successful December, telling reporters that the politician had been 'treated beauteous unfairly.' 

He had besides claimed, without offering evidence, that Adams was being persecuted for criticizing erstwhile President Joe Biden's policies connected immigration.

After Trump's inauguration, Adams' lawyers had approached elder Justice Department officials, asking them to intervene and driblet the case.

In precocious 2023, Adams declared helium was 'extremely comfortable' with however helium and his run squad act, contempt the location of his apical fundraiser being raided by the FBI.

The raid was portion of an probe into an alleged kickback strategy involving the Turkish authorities and a Brooklyn operation company, according to a report.

Brianna Suggs' Brooklyn house was searched portion helium was connected his mode to meetings successful Washington DC, forcing him to abruptly cancel and instrumentality to 'deal with a matter'. The timing was deliberate, sources said.

Adams did not notation the raid directly, oregon code his enactment with Suggs, but said helium would cooperate with the investigation.

He told ABC News: 'I consciousness highly comfy astir however I comply with rules and procedures. 

'I clasp myself to a precocious standard, and I clasp my run to a precocious standard, and I clasp my unit astatine City Hall to a precocious standard. 

'I'm precise wide that it is my work to clasp myself to a precocious modular and I volition comply with immoderate enquiry that is made and I americium demanding that my squad bash the same.'