President Trump’s new Department of Justice has opened talks between Mayor Adams’ legal team and Manhattan federal prosecutors as Hizzoner seeks to get the corruption charges against him dropped, The Post can confirm.
Talks between Adams’ team and the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York have gone through the office of Truimp’s new deputy attorney general, Emil Bove, a source confirmed to The Post late Wednesday.
Although the source did not elaborate on what was discussed, Adams’ recent trip to meet Trump at Mar-a-Lago was widely reported to have involved his legal woes. Adams’ legal team is led by Alex Spiro, a high-powered attorney who also represents Elon Musk, one of the president’s closest advisers.
Before taking office, Trump said he would consider pardoning the mayor, saying he thinks Adams had been “treated pretty unfairly.”
But rather than seeking such a pardon, the discussions are about potentially dropping the charges to save the new president from having to use those pardoning powers, five people familiar with the discussions told the New York Times.
The Times reported that the pair have been speaking on the phone privately in recent weeks, and while a pardon was never discussed, Trump did bring up the “weaponization” of the justice system — a complaint he’s repeated with his own legal woes.
Adams has forcefully denied all wrongdoing and his attorneys have mounted an aggressive defense ahead of a federal trial expected in April.
