Alex Spiro, Mayor Eric Adams‘ criminal defense attorney, argued in a new Wednesday legal filing that Hizzoner’s corruption case should be dismissed “with prejudice” due to former Manhattan federal prosecutors leaking documents to the press that, he argues, has tarnished the mayor’s image with any jury pool.
In the Feb. 26 court papers, Spiro alleged that a Feb. 12 letter from former acting Manhattan US Attorney Danielle Sassoon to US Attorney General Pam Bondi — which accused Adams’ counsel and President Trump’s DOJ of engaging in a quid pro quo to have his charges dropped — constituted “prosecutorial misconduct.” Spiro and the DOJ have both fiercely denied any quid pro quo, and the mayor himself denied it under oath during a federal court hearing last week.
