New York City Mayor Eric Adams is in a state of legal and political purgatory.

Manhattan federal Judge Dale E.

A Justice Department official has pointed to sworn statements New York City Mayor Eric Adams made at a court hearing to urge a federal judge to agree that corruption charges against him can be dismissed.

A top supervisor in the federal prosecutors’ office in Washington said she was forced to resign following a dispute with her boss over a directive that she scrutinize the awarding of a government contract during the Biden administration, according to a letter reviewed by The Associated Press.

A former Watergate prosecutor has urged the federal judge presiding over the prosecution of New York City Mayor Eric Adams to assign a special counsel to help decide how to handle the Justice Department's request to drop charges.

Pam Bondi had insisted at her Senate confirmation hearing that as attorney general, her Justice Department would not “play politics.”.

The Justice Department has asked a court to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

Danielle Sassoon had served just three weeks as interim U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York when she penned a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi saying she could not follow a directive to drop the office’s corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, Danielle Sassoon, and five high-ranking Justice Department officials have resigned after she refused an order to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams thanked the Justice Department for ordering a halt to his criminal corruption case and castigated the prosecution as “cruel” while vowing to regain the trust of voters ahead of his upcoming election.

A former top executive in Sam Bankman-Fried’s fallen FTX cryptocurrency empire has been sentenced to two years in prison for participating in what a prosecutor said was one of the largest recent financial frauds in U.S. history.

A prosecutor has attacked the credibility of Sam Bankman-Fried's testimony at his fraud trial, confronting him over whether he was truthful during his public appearances after FTX filed for bankruptcy last year.