Behind the bombshell end of the criminal case against New York Mayor Eric Adams

Rotten Big Apple? Prosecutorial pile-on? Politics as blood sport? To legal observers in New York City, those were the questions haunting the pending criminal trial of Mayor Eric Adams.

The Trump Justice Department ended speculation last week with a bombshell memo to the U.S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, the fabled and famously independent SDNY, directing the office to “dismiss the pending charges” against Adams.