Adams Asks Judge to Speed Up Decision on Dropping Corruption Charges

The federal government wants the bribery and fraud charges against New York’s mayor to be dropped so he can help President Trump’s deportation program. A judge is considering the matter as the mayoral race heats up.

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Rippling Sues Deel, a Software Rival, Over Corporate Spying

A lawsuit by Rippling accuses a top competitor, Deel, of placing a mole in its ranks — which it uncovered via a “honeypot” trap on Slack.

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4 Takeaways From the Hearing on Dismissing Charges Against Eric Adams

The Justice Department has asked to dismiss a federal corruption case against the New York mayor, prompting resignations and calls for the judge to reject the request.

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Justice Dept. Official Suggests That Aiding Trump Outweighs Prosecutions

Emil Bove III, the acting deputy attorney general, tried to persuade a judge to let him drop a corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York. He said the mayor was crucial to the president’s agenda.

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Who Are Alex Spiro, Emil Bove and Other Lawyers Who May Be at the Adams Hearing?

Emil Bove, the No. 2 at the Justice Department, and Alex Spiro, who joined Eric Adams’s defense team in September, are among those expected to participate in the hearing.

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Judge to Scrutinize Adams’s Dealings With Trump’s Justice Department

At a hearing Wednesday, Judge Dale E. Ho is expected to examine the extraordinary events leading up to the government’s request to drop charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York.

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How the Justice Dept. Helped Sink Its Own Case Against Eric Adams

A top Trump appointee guided Mr. Adams’s legal team as they crafted an argument for dismissing corruption charges against the mayor of America’s largest city.

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Adams Gets a Reprieve From Trump

Eric Adams had made repeated overtures to the president before the Justice Department directed that the corruption charges against the mayor be dismissed.

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Adams Gets a Reprieve From Trump

Eric Adams had made repeated overtures to the president before the Justice Department directed that the corruption charges against the mayor be dismissed.

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Adams’s Lawyer Claims Vindication. The Reality Is More Complicated.

Mayor Eric Adams’s defense lawyer Alex Spiro welcomed the move to drop his federal corruption case and insisted that the mayor was innocent. His assertions conflicted with evidence described by federal prosecutors.

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