The Department of Justice asks the Prosecutor to dismiss the case for corruption of the Mayor of New York | International

The United States Department of Justice has requested on Monday the dismissal of the federal corruption case against Democrat Eric Adams, mayor of New York. The councilor, who had been charged in September for allegedly receiving money from Türkiye, has cultivated in recent months a close relationship with President Donald Trump, whose process by the Stormy Daniel casein which the Republican was convicted of the 34 crimes that were imputed to him, described as “political persecution.” The same words that the president used repeatedly to define the judicial causes that weighed against him, today volatilized thanks to his victory at the polls.

In a memorandum sent to the Prosecutor’s Office late on Monday, the number two In accordance with the Department of Justice, Emil Bove, has accused the former Federal of Manhattan who presented the positions against Adams of having done so for political reasons, although he did not provide evidence. Bove, who assured that the case will be reviewed after the elections to the mayor’s Stormy Daniels case.

Adams was accused of five charges of bribery, fraud and request for illegal foreign donations for its electoral campaign, which led to the Mayor’s Office in 2021. The Prosecutor’s Office accuses him of accelerating the approval of the construction permits of a new Turkish consulate in Manhattan despite the configured security problems, in exchange for illegal donations and free luxury trips and with great discounts. The prosecutors requested information about their relations with five other countries and suggested that the case could have expanded. The councilor maintains his innocence.

The dismissal of the charges, more for a matter of inopportance than in the background, would end, for now, to the case against the councilor, in addition to asking questions about the random administration of justice under the mandate of President Trump. This same Monday, according to several local media, the president planned to pard Barack Obama and scaming a children’s hospital.

According to the reasons given by the Department of Justice to justify its decision, Adams’ imputation occurred too close to the Democratic primaries to the Mayor’s Office of 2025 and also limited its ability to cooperate with the campaign to repression immigration, in which Adams has shown whether not enthusiasm, yes an almost partisan conformity, unlike Democratic mayors from other large cities, such as Chicago.

But inopportities outside, the justice measure has also been adopted after repeated attempts to approach Trump to Trump, all successful. In addition to sharing judicial care, the councilor has also tried Other Democratic cities have traditionally had for immigrants, as well as to give orders to the city’s security forces to collaborate with immigration agents in the detention of all those foreigners with a criminal record and pending expulsion orders. The reward for seeking Trump’s policies now arrives in the form of dismissal of the case, which was planned to be judged in April.

Adams has reiterated that he intends to present himself this year to re -election, and at some point he even slid the possibility of doing it as a Republican, although he did not mention that option again. In a gesture highly criticized for its co -religionists of the city and the state of New York, Adams, an ex -collection of the law discourse and order and hard hand with crime, attended Trump’s inauguration on Trump last 20 January. Shortly before, he had met with the Republican in his Mar-A-Lago (Florida) mansion.

But his approach goes back even before the November elections. Already elected, the Republican said he considered the possibility of pardoning Adams because the case of the Manhattan Prosecutor’s Office was a political persecution.