Judge Dale Ho made the logical decision in permanently dropping corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams.
Judge Dale Ho made the right call in permanently dropping corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams.
Hizzoner has plainly suffered a personal morale hit from this ordeal; he even announced that he’d stopped reading the newspapers to help him cope.
But now he can tend to city business and ramp up a full-throttle reelection campaign — with no cloud hanging over him.
About time.
The case plainly needed to be dropped: As the Justice Department noted, it smelled of “impropriety” by Biden prosecutors, who indicted Adams only after he criticized their administration’s immigration policies.
The case also “improperly interfered” with Adams’ reelection campaign and hamstrung him in doing his job.
But so did the Trump prosecutors’ plan to retain the right to refile charges later: Adams’ enemies have been relentless in charging that leaving things in limbo left the mayor obliged to jump anytime the prez said “frog.
