Mayor Eric Adams will go to trial in his federal corruption case on April 21 of next year, right in the thick of the 2025 Democratic mayoral primary, a federal judge ruled on Friday.
U.S. District Court Judge Dale Ho set the trial date in the mayor’s corruption case — brought by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Damian Williams in late September — during a Nov. 1 court conference inside the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse in lower Manhattan. The judge also heard oral arguments over Adams’ attorney’s motion to dismiss a bribery charge against him and said he intends to rule on it “shortly.”
