By Allan Lengel
In a move guaranteed to endear the Trump administration to a high-profile Democrat in New York, the Justice Department on Monday told federal prosecutors in Manhattan to drop corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams, the New York Times reports.
The DOJ claimed his indictment last fall came too close to the 2025 Democratic mayoral primary and limited his ability to cooperate with President Trump’s immigration crackdown, the Times writes.
The order came after Adams met with Trump near his Mar-a-Lago property last month.
Adams, 64, was indicted last year on five federal charges of bribery, fraud and soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations when he was a top elected official in Brooklyn and continued after he became mayor.
The probe began in 2021 and has focused in part on whether he conspired with the Turkish government to receive illegal foreign campaign contributions in exchange for official acts, the Times reports.
The dismissal will obviously make it easier for Adams to run for re-election. It will also give strength to his denials that he’s done nothing wrong.
