NEW YORK (AP) — Justice Department lawyers and New York City Mayor Eric Adams are set to face a federal judge who is signaling that he is unlikely to rubber-stamp their request to drop the mayor’s corruption charges weeks before an April trial.
Judge Dale E. Ho, who was nominated by Democratic President Joe Biden, scheduled the Wednesday afternoon hearing after three Trump administration lawyers from Washington made the dismissal request on Friday. Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor resigned after she refused an order to do so.
The judge already has indicated that the hearing probably would not settle the matter, writing in an order Tuesday that one subject on the agenda
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