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Dear New Yorkers,

A federal judge has dismissed Mayor Eric Adams' corruption case, eliminating the possibility that the Trump Justice Department could reopen the case.

In dismissing the charges “with prejudice,” Manhattan Federal Judge Dale Ho rejected the Department of Justice’s motion to dismiss the case “without prejudice,” based on the argument that the mayor’s indictment on bribery and campaign finance fraud charges was interfering with his ability to assist the Trump administration's immigration enforcement initiative.

Ho said that dismissing the case without prejudice would have created "the unavoidable perception that the mayor’s freedom depends on his ability to carry out the immigration enforcement priorities of the administration, and that he might be more beholden to the demands of the federal government than to the wishes of his own constituents."

The dismissal comes just two months before the June 24 mayoral primary and a day before the mayor is required to file petition signatures his campaign is collecting to get on the Democratic ballot. Read more here about the dismissal and the judge’s decision.

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