NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department ordered federal prosecutors Monday to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, arguing in a remarkable departure from longstanding prosecutorial norms that the case was interfering with the mayor’s ability to crack down on illegal immigration and violent crime.
In a two-page memo obtained by The Associated Press, acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove called on prosecutors to immediately pause the prosecution, which he described as politically tainted.
He said the order was not based on the strength of the case, but rather because it had distracted Adams from devoting his “full attention and resources to the illegal immigration and violent
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