The judge puts an end to Eric Adams, but strongly criticizes the Trump justice department

On Wednesday a judge rejected the accusations of federal corruption against Eric Adams, ending the first criminal proceeding against a Mayor of New York City in modern history and underlining how the Department of Justice of President Trump is using the judicial power to advance his agenda.

In his sentence, the judge, Dale E. I have of the Federal District Court of Manhattan, refused to allow the government to keep open the possibility of restoring the accusations, as had sought the Department of Justice of Mr. Trump. Officials of the Department of Justice had stated that the accusation was hindering Adams assistance with the mass deportation plans of the Trump administration.

“Everything here knows of a real deal: the dismissal of the accusation in exchange for immigration policy concessions”, The judge wrote in his 78 pages decision.

Even in this way, his decision to allow the Department of Justice to abandon the case underlines the considerable power that the administration of Mr. Trump must stop judicial proceedings, regardless of logic. The decision abruptly interrupted the longtime case, which had been originally foreseen for the process this month.

It was also the culmination of a bitter clash among the federal ministries who accused Mr. Adams and the officials of the Department of Justice who worked to kill the case. That struggle, in which both sides accused themselves of bad ethical conduct, left Mr. Adams deeply damaged as he faces a steep uphill climb for the re -election this year.

In his opinion, the judge hardly rejected the statements of the Department of Justice according to which the case had been presented for political reasons by the Federal Ministries in Manhattan. “There is no evidence – zero – that they had improper reasons,” he wrote.

The Department of Justice had moved to reject the accusations against the mayor after the public ministries who brought the accusation refused. One of the highest rank officials in the department offered the very unusual justification, claiming that the case was compromising the ability of Mr. Adams to promote immigration policies of the Trump administration.

“The record does not show that this case has compromised the mayor Adams in his efforts of applying immigration,” wrote the judge I have. Instead, he said, after the officials of the Department of Justice asked for the dismissal of the case, the Mayor has undertaken at least a new immigration action in line with the administration’s policies.

The judge said that by granting the government’s request to reject the accusations without prejudice, which would have allowed him to bring them back: “It would create the inevitable perception that the freedom of the mayor depends on his ability to carry out the priorities for the application of the immigration of the administration and that it could be more issued to the requests of the federal government than for the desires of their constituents”.

Mr. Adams was offended last year Five countsincluding corruption, fraud and solicitation of illegal donations of foreign campaigns. He had declared himself not guilty and had denied any illicit.

Once the accusation was returned in September, the accusation was agreed aggressively by the United States prosecutor’s office in Manhattan. But after the change in the presidential administrations, the Trump Justice Department reversed the course, ordering ministries to ask for the dismissal of the accusations.

Danielle R. Sassoon, the US lawyer at Interim in Manhattan, refused to obey the order and resigned and followed a series of resignation in New York and Washington. Officials of the Department of Justice, including Emil Bove III, then Deputy Prosecutor General actor, ended up presenting the motion alone.

The judge’s sentence was in line with A recommendation by a legal expert appointed by the Court, Paul D. ClementA conservative lawyer who had argued that the case of the mayor should be finished with prejudice, which means that the accusations could not be reported.

“A dismissal without prejudice creates a palpable meaning that the accusation outlined in the accusation and approved by a great jury could be renewed, a perspective that hangs like the proverbial sword of Damocles on the accused”, Mr. Clement ” written in a judicial deposit of 7 March.