Unlawful files in the New York City mayor’s case shed light on the investigation
New York – Eric Adams, the Federal agents who are investigating the mayor of New York City, is still seizing the phones and applying for inspection orders days before the prosecutor’s leaders of the Public Prosecutor’s Commanders to drop the corruption issue, according to the documents issued on Friday.
The court records group, which was sealed, opens a window in the criminal case, and it appears that even with Washington officials retreat from the prosecution, investigators in Manhattan were moving forward.
The documents also confirm something that the prosecutors previously revealed: that the federal investigation of whether Adams had obtained contributions to an inappropriate campaign in August 2021, when Democrat was still in his old job to President Brokelin Boro, but it was widely expected to win the rescue of the mayor.
Adams has repeatedly said he believed he was tried because, later, as mayor, he criticized immigration policies for former President Joe Biden.
The investigation was first poured into public opinion in November 2023, when the FBI agents seized Adams phones and iPads while leaving it in Manhattan. He was charged 10 months after accepting free travel contributions and illegal campaign contributions from people who seek to buy his influence, including the Turkish diplomat.
But on February 10, weeks after President Donald Trump took office, the new leadership of the Federal Public Prosecutors in New York ordered the dropping of these charges, on the pretext that the case was hindering the mayor’s ability to help immigrate in the Republican administration.
Unusual directives from federal prosecutors offices in Manhattan and Washington. Instead of implementing the matter, many public prosecutors, including the senior federal prosecutor in Manhattan, Daniel Sasson. The judge in the end said that he had no legal option except to reject the case at the request of senior officials of the Ministry of Justice.
Prosecutors were continuing to search in Adams in the weeks before the case stopped, and Sasson said they were about to provide additional charges against him because of the obstruction of justice.
On February 7, the judge signed a request to search on a phone that was the subject of anonymous investigation that had managed to respond to a summons. Weeks ago, one of the judges signed an order to search at a house in Middlettown, New York, in relation to a set of alleged straw donations submitted to the Adams campaign in 2020. On December 4, the judge agreed to a request from federal investigators to discuss a house in Queens.
Search operations and seizures
The US Del E. Deline judge ordered the records that were canceled at the request of the New York Times, and then, the New York Post. The Times argued in the papers of the court that there is a “particular convincing” case to make it public because there will be no trial. Neither Adams’s lawyers, nor the prosecutors oppose the request.
The documents are offered behind the scenes on how investigators collect their case together through searches for electronics and material sites throughout New York and beyond.
Also not allocated documents revealed that in May 2024, a judge judge signed an order to search in Fort Lee, New Jersey, the home of the Romantic Partner of the mayor, Trissi Collins, who was previously working as a senior official in the city’s Ministry of Education.
The Commant Collins application is not mentioned directly, but it defines it as Adams’s partner and says that the mayor also uses the home sometimes. The agents wanted to do the research to reach five iPhone devices where they looked at whether a Turkish consulate official sought to help get a child in a very desirable general middle school.
The September 2024 request was also included to obtain an order to search for Gracie Mansion, the official headquarters of the mayor in Manhattan, where it offers pictures of the building from multiple angles.
A written certificate from the FBI agent indicates that the site’s data for one of the Adams phones indicates that he is spending “night hours” on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in housing “and sometimes he does so in other days as well.”
Adams meets with Trump
When requesting to comment on the new documents, Adams’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, criticized the claim that is now ending.
“This case – the first case of airline” spoils ” – could not be brought in the first place and ends now,” said Spearo.
Adams described the rejection of the issue as justification, while he denies that he had concluded a deal with Trump for indulgence. But he maintained a warm relationship with the president after rejecting his case. The two leaders met in Washington on Friday, when Trump later told reporters that he “thought he had already come to thank me.”
The Adams office issued a statement that they had discussed “critical infrastructure projects, as well as maintaining basic social services, among other topics.”
Even with criminal charges behind him, Adams faces an uncertain political future. He recently announced that it will exceed the democratic preliminary elections in June, and instead it runs as an independent in the general elections in November.