Republican President Donald Trump’s Justice Department (DOJ) has instructed Manhattan federal prosecutors to drop Mayor Eric Adams’ five-count corruption indictment, according to a DOJ memo.
In the memo, a copy of which The New York Times posted online Monday evening, the DOJ’s acting second-in-command Emil Bove said Adams’ case should be dismissed because of when Manhattan federal prosecutors brought the charges and “pre-trial publicity that risks impacting potential witnesses and the jury pool.”
