02-13-2025, 02:49 AM
NYC Mayor Adams’ lawyer takes victory lap after Trump DOJ orders feds to drop historic corruption case: ‘There is no looming threat’
https://nypost.com/2025/02/12/us-news/nyc-mayor-adams-lawyer-takes-victory-lap-after-trump-doj-orders-feds-to-drop-historic-corruption-case-there-is-no-looming-threat/
{Ben Kochman & Craig McCarthy | 12 February 2025}
Mayor Eric Adams’ lawyer took a victory lap Wednesday — hailing the Department of Justice for ordering Manhattan federal prosecutors to drop Hizzoner’s historic corruption case — and claiming New York City would be “better off.”
In a theatric press conference, attorney Alex Spiro called the case — in which Adams is charged with doing favors for Turkish diplomats in exchange for $123,000 worth of travel perk bribes — “ticky tacky,” and suggested that the threat of prison time hanging over his head hindered the mayor’s ability to run the city.
“Is this city and the government better off with the Mayor having a ticky tacky case that’s legally infirm and factually suspect hanging over his and the rest of New York’s heads?” Spiro told reporters assembled in a conference room in the ritzy Midtown office of his law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP.
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