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Governor weighs removing NYC Mayor Adams after his top deputies quit amid criminal case turmoil

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Monday she is weighing removing New York City Mayor Eric Adams from office after four of his top deputies announced their resignations in the latest fallout from the Justice Department’s push to end his corruption case. Hochul, a Democrat, said she will convene a meeting of key leaders Tuesday in Manhattan “for a conversation about the path forward.” She said the departures of First Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer and other top officials raise “serious questions […]

todayFebruary 18, 2025

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Justice Department asks court to dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams

The Justice Department formally asked a court Friday to dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, an expected move after that was fiercely opposed by the federal prosecutors in Manhattan who brought the case. Acting Deputy U.S. Attorney General Emil Bove and lawyers from the department’s public integrity section and criminal division in Washington filed paperwork seeking to end the case. A judge still has to sign off on the request. The formal move to end the prosecution […]

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Order to drop NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ case roils Justice Department as high-ranking officials resign

Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, Danielle Sassoon, and five high-ranking Justice Department officials resigned Thursday after she refused an order to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams — a stunning escalation in a dayslong standoff over the Trump administration prioritizing political aims over criminal culpability. Sassoon, a Republican who was interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, accused the department of acceding to a “quid pro quo” — dropping the case to ensure Adams’ help with Trump’s immigration agenda — and […]

todayFebruary 14, 2025

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Trump’s Justice Department orders prosecutors to drop charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams

A top official at the U.S. Department of Justice has ordered federal prosecutors to drop charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat who has cultivated a warm relationship with President Donald Trump. In a two-page memo obtained by The Associated Press, acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, an alumnus of the Manhattan office that brought the case, said that the decision to dismiss the charges was reached without an assessment of the strength of the prosecution of the […]

todayFebruary 10, 2025

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Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is considering a run for governor of Georgia

Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta who ushered the city through COVID and the George Floyd uprising in May 2020, is heading back to Georgia and back into Georgia politics. Bottoms hinted at a run for the Georgia governor’s office in a recent interview with Jorge Estevez of Atlanta’s WSB-TV.  When asked about whether or not there was an office she might be considering running for in the state, Bottoms made mention of one particular race.  “Well, there […]

todayJanuary 24, 2025 1

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NYC mayor Eric Adams to meet with President-elect Donald Trump

New York City Mayor Eric Adams plans to meet with Donald Trump in Florida on Friday, another friendly overture to the president-elect by a Democrat awaiting trial on federal corruption charges. The purpose of the talk is to “discuss New Yorkers’ priorities,” the mayor’s spokesperson, Fabien Levy, said in a short statement Thursday. “The mayor looks forward to having a productive conversation with the incoming president on how we can move our city and country forward,” he said. Adams left […]

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LA Mayor Karen Bass and Democrats face criticisms over California wildfires

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is facing criticism from political opponents amidst the California city’s deadly wildfires that have left at least two people dead and many homes and businesses badly burned. Bass, who was out of the country in Ghana at the start of the wildfire disaster, was on the ground Wednesday with local authorities and California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif. “The impact of these fires and winds are devastating,” Mayor Bass wrote on X, […]

todayJanuary 8, 2025

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‘Treated pretty unfairly’: President-elect Trump says he would pardon NYC Mayor Eric Adams

President-elect Donald Trump said he would be open to pardoning New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who was criminally indicted by federal prosecutors in September related to alleged campaign finance violations. “I think he was treated pretty unfairly,” said Trump during a Monday morning news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida.  The incoming president admitted he had not “seen the gravity” of Adams’ indictments. However, citing details from the case involving the mayor allegedly receiving illegal […]

todayDecember 16, 2024 1

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New York City mayor meets with Trump’s ‘border czar’ to discuss how to go after ‘violent’ criminals

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams met with President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming “border czar” on Thursday, with the Democratic mayor expressing an enthusiasm to work with the incoming administration to pursue violent criminals in the city while Trump promises mass deportations. The mayor’s meeting with Tom Homan, who will oversee the southern and northern borders and be responsible for deportation efforts in the Trump administration, came as Adams has welcomed parts of the president-elect’s hardline immigration platform. Adams told reporters at […]

todayDecember 14, 2024 1