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Months after the federal prosecutors in Manhattan had yielded a five -second corruption against Mayor Eric Adams of New York, the federal authorities still threw their research into his transactions.
She obtained a new order that authorized them to search the phone of a person they thought had the evidence of fraud and bribery of the federal program with regard to the mayor of Mr Adams 2021 and 2025.
Three days later, on February 10, the Trump government ordered them to leave the case.
The order, one of the dozens signed by federal judges during the almost four-year bribery and fraud investigation into Mr Adams, was included in approximately 1,700 pages with records that were released at the end of Friday in response to a request from the New York Times and the New York Post.
Judge Dale E. Ho granted the government’s request to reject the charges against Mr Adams last month. Critics said that Mr Adams and the Trump administration are involved in a corrupt Quid Pro quo, whereby the dismissal of the case was traded for help breaking down illegal immigration. Mr Adams claims that he has done nothing wrong and suggested that God used the Trump government To correct a serious injustice.
In a statement on Friday, his lawyer, Alex Spiro, said that the case “should never have been brought in the first place and is now over.” A spokesperson for the office of the federal public prosecutor in Manhattan refused to comment.
The documents generated during the long investigation of Mr Adams, including searches, sworn statements by FBI agents and other materials, shed light at important moments in the run-up to the first indictment of a sitting mayor in the modern history of New York City, even if they only represent a fraction of the Warrants and other materials generated by the business.
They offered a rough sketch of an investigation that started in August 2021 aimed at the fundraising of the mayor and his connections with the government of Turkey. Most of the names of people who had passed the study were edited, including those of the person whose telephone was searched in February, and much of what was in the documents had already been made known.
Yet some records contain details that were not known before.
One sworn explanation suggested that federal agents had considered grabbing the mayor’s electronic devices at the finish line of the New York City Marathon on November 5, 2023. Instead, they approached him the next night outside an event in Greenwich Village and they took the devices after he told his security detail to step aside.
But after they had done that, an FBI agent wrote in another sworn explanation, it turned out that Mr Adams-Wiens Main Fund Relocation had only been searched a few days earlier tried their efforts to obstruct his personal mobile phone.
Mr Adams did not have the device with him when the agents came for it. He said he had changed the password to prevent assistants from having access to it after the research in the public view released with the search for the house of fundraising and that he had forgotten the new number then.
Mr Adams said that after he resolved himself, he wanted an assistant to take his phone to an Apple store and then left it in the town hall, but the agent wrote location data.
Asking for an order for more data, the agent wrote that, if proven, the “obstructive behavior of the mayor and false statements would be strong evidence of the guilt of Adams.”
(A subsequent application said that Mr Adams’s lawyers later revised his account, and said that an assistant would have taken the phone out of the town hall without his knowledge.)
Another application said that the mayor was being investigated for messing up with witnesses, a crime with which he was never charged. That related to an episode in which an assistant encouraged the mayor to lie an Uzbeek businessman and his employees to lie against the FBI about an alleged straw man’s donor scheme that benefited Mr Adams, according to documents in the case.
During the application, an FBI agent said that the Uzbeek businessman reported that Mr Adams had told his assistant that the businessman was ‘tight’ – clamping a fist on each other for emphasis – and not talking to the authorities. The businessman eventually cooperated.
Mr. Adams was sued In September by federal prosecutors in Manhattan Five countsIncluding bribery, wire fraud and requests from illegal foreign donations.
In the days that followed, public prosecutors outlined part of the evidence that they had transferred to his lawyers, with reference to nearly 40 search orders carried out during the investigation. They also quoted data from 21 communication devices and accounts, and noted that this was only a third of the total of 60 to 70 devices and accounts that would be transferred later.
They also played 300,000 pages of documents that researchers obtained through summons and 4,000 records from the town hall. All in all, the materials were 1,6 terabytes of data.
The indictment and a corresponding flurry of non -related investigations into the inner circle of Mr Adams, have performed his administration and have already weakened anemic polls.
All the time, Mr. Adams are innocence and started for months dating from Donald J. Trump.
In February, the acting official of the Ministry of Justice, Emil Bove III, directed The Interim -Marican lawyer in Manhattan to ask for the dismissal of the case, with the argument that the indictment disrupted with the mayor’s assets to collaborate with President Trump’s deportation agenda and ran the risk of interfering in the upcoming elections.
The Interim -Mamerican lawyer, Danielle R. Sassoon, dismissal Instead of carrying out an order that she called an apparent ‘quid pro quo’ in a letter to attorney -general Pam Bondi. Various other departmental officials, in Washington, DC and Manhattan, have also resigned.
When judge HO finally rejected the charges against Mr Adams, he wrote in his decision that he did not do this because he believed that they had no merit, but because the constitution has the power to prosecute federal criminal cases – or not – in executive branch officers of the Ministry of Justice and that he had limited power as a judge.
Yet he criticized the apparent motive of the administration: extracting the help of Mr Adams in promoting Mr Trump’s campaign against illegal immigrants.
“Everything here refers to a bargain: dismissal of the indictment in exchange for concessions for immigration policy,” Judge Ho wrote.
Mr. Adams the president visited in the White House Before the documents were released on Friday, apparently to discuss problems in New York City.
Afterwards, Mr. Trump told reporters that he thought that Mr Adams had come to ‘thank me’, apparently referring to the dismissal of the case, and that they had ‘almost nothing’ discussed.
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