The Justice Department on Friday released internal communications among prosecutors involved in the bribery case against Eric Adams that it said supported its decision to drop charges against the New York City mayor.
The mayor was joined by three other Democratic mayors as witnesses at a U.S. House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday morning.
A stark reversal from the pre-mayoral and pre-federal-indictment Adams, who positioned himself as a staunch advocate for immigrant rights.
A House committee questioned Mayor Eric Adams and three other leaders of so-called sanctuary cities on Wednesday on their willingness to cooperate with Trump administration immigration policy — but Republicans generally focused their ire on Boston,
Chris Swecker, a former assistant FBI director, said Adams' colleagues are hurting public safety in their own cities by feuding with Trump over immigration enforcement. "Cartels are powerful ...
The dynamic set Adams far apart from the three other Democratic mayors — Denver’s Mike Johnston, Chicago’s Brandon Johnson and Boston’s Michelle Wu — who sat alongside him in a subterranean hearing room and faced feverish questioning from House Republicans seeking a viral moment.