An independent attorney appointed by Judge Dale Ho to advise on New York City Mayor Eric Adams‘s corruption case said in a court filing that the case should be dismissed with prejudice.

Paul Clement, Ho’s answer to a legal problem in which the prosecution against Adams went limp in its offensive, took the Department of Justice’s request to dismiss charges to the next level in his recommendation.

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