Back in early February, Deputy AG Emil Bove asked interim U.S. attorney in Manhattan Danielle R. Sassoon to drop the corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams. Sassoon refused and resigned after sending a letter to AG Pam Bondi saying that the government was proposing a quid pro quo in which Adams would have the case against him dropped in exchange for his cooperation with the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration.
Mr. Bove, in ordering Ms. Sassoon to seek the dismissal, said explicitly that the directive was not related to the strength of the evidence or any legal theories. Instead, he said, the prosecution was hindering the mayor’s cooperation on immigration.
Both Mr. Bove and Mr. Adams’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, have vigorously denied that any deal preceded the motion to dismiss the charges against Mr. Adams, a Democrat. The mayor was indicted…
