Mayor Eric Adams claimed vindication on Tuesday during a direct address to New Yorkers in response to the Justice Department’s move to drop his federal corruption charges — even though the Trump-led DOJ said its order was not based on the case’s facts.
During the mayor’s address, which ran nearly six minutes and was broadcast from behind closed doors at City Hall, he contended the decision proved that he was innocent of any wrongdoing. However, the Feb. 10 DOJ memo from acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove ordering Manhattan federal prosecutors to drop the charges made clear that the department “reached this conclusion without assessing the strength of the evidence or the legal theories on which the case is based.”
