The judge in Democrat NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ criminal case on charges of alleged bribery and corruption held a 90-minute hearing on Wednesday afternoon with Alex Spiro, Adams’ lawyer, and Emil Bove, the acting U.S. deputy attorney general, in which he asked about the reasoning behind the Justice Department filing a motion asking the court to dismiss the case. And while not much ended up being resolved, the meeting wasn’t without fireworks.
But we need to back up a little before getting to that. On Feb. 10, the Trump administration’s Justice Department (DOJ) ordered federal prosecutors to dismiss the charges brought against Adams. As my colleague Sister Toldjah noted, in a memo written by acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, he said:
“You are directed, as authorized by the Attorney General, to dismiss the pending charges in United States v….
