New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams (D) was seen laughing with President Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan as he addressed “quid pro quo” allegations following the Monday dismissal of federal his corruption costs, calling the accusations “silly.”
“Take into consideration my lawyer, Alex Spiro, one of many high trial attorneys within the nation. Think about him going inside saying that the one method Mayor Adams goes to help in immigration, which I used to be calling for since 2022, is in case you drop the costs,” he told Fox News’s “Fox and Friends” in an interview Friday. “That’s quid pro quo. That’s a crime.”
“It took her three weeks to report in front of her a criminal action,” the mayor said, referring to interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York Danielle Sassoon, who prosecuted the case. “Come on, this is silly.”
Adams has denied hanging a deal to assist the federal government make good on the Trump administration’s guarantees to hold out mass deportations. Nonetheless, he met with Homan on Thursday the place he agreed to signal an govt order granting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brokers entry to Rikers Island to determine violent criminals there.
The Justice Division (DOJ) earlier this week ordered federal prosecutors to dismiss the costs towards Adams, who has seemingly cozied up with the president in latest months as his bribery trial set for April inched nearer.
Sassoon resigned earlier this week after a memo by performing Deputy Legal professional Common Emil Bove directed her to drop the case.
“Reasonably than be rewarded, Adams’s advocacy must be known as out for what it’s: an improper provide of immigration enforcement help in change for a dismissal of his case,” she wrote Wednesday in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi. “Though Mr. Bove disclaimed any intention to change leniency on this case for Adams’s help in imposing federal regulation, that’s the nature of the discount laid naked in Mr. Bove’s memo.”
“That’s particularly so given Mr. Bove’s comparability to the Bout prisoner change, which was fairly expressly a quid professional quo, however one carried out by the White Home, and never the prosecutors accountable for Bout’s case,” Sassoon added.
The Republican prosecutor stated the gesture conflicted with the oath of workplace she took earlier than turning into Manhattan’s high prosecutor, which prompted her departure.
Her resignation comes simply months after her predecessor Damien Williams stepped down following Trump’s election win.
