Judge said Trump officials’ push to have case dropped ‘smacks of a bargain’ over immigration enforcement
A US federal judge on Wednesday dismissed the Department of Justice’s corruption case against New York City’s embattled mayor, Eric Adams, after weeks of scandal about the Democratic mayor bowing to pressure from the Trump administration to cooperate on immigration crackdowns while trying to get out from under the criminal charges.
Despite the judge’s decision, he said the Trump administration’s grounds for having the case dropped “smacks of a bargain”.
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