Eric Adams just became the poster child for Pam Bondi's new corruption stance

I think it is Past time for Eric Adams to publicly announce he is leaving the Dem Party
and join the Repug Party!


Eric Adams just became the poster child for Pam Bondi's new corruption stance

New York City Mayor Eric Adams' bribery debacle highlights how #Trump's #DOJ has recently moved to ignore and underplay kickbacks.

https://msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-bondi-eric-adams-corruption-rcna191906 via @msnbc


How Trump and Bondi are breaking America’s anti-corruption safeguards

New York City Mayor Eric Adams' bribery debacle highlights how DOJ has recently moved to ignore and underplay kickbacks.

‘A preeminent test of the rule of law’: SDNY U.S. Attorney resigns after refusing to drop Adams case
Feb. 13, 2025, 6:26 PM CST
By Hayes Brown, MSNBC Opinion Writer/Editor

It has rarely hurt a politician’s fortunes to insist that they will clean up their opponent’s rampant abuse of power. Claims of waste, fraud and corruption are part and parcel with American politics, dating back to the earliest days of the republic. But while the second Trump administration is saying many of the right words, its first month makes clear that far from combating bribery and other forms of corruption, it has moved to ignore, underplay, or even embrace a blossoming culture of kickbacks.

Case in point: New York City Mayor Eric Adams was indicted last year on corruption charges. Federal prosecutors accused Adams of currying favor with Turkish officials and foreign businesspeople in exchange for flight upgrades, airline tickets and illegal campaign donations. The alleged grift was relatively low stakes, but corruption is corruption, and America’s laws have been shaped over the years to combat even the smallest-scale acts of alleged bribery, especially when it comes from overseas.

The alleged grift was relatively low stakes, but corruption is corruption

But on Monday, the Justice Department announced that it was asking prosecutors to drop the charges against Adams, framing the case as having unfairly impacted his coming bid to run for re-election this fall. The memo from acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove went out of its way to include a footnote insisting that “the Government is not offering to exchange dismissal of a criminal case for Adams’s assistance on immigration enforcement.”

But evidence of a quid pro quo has become clearer by the day. For starters, the DOJ announcement only came after Adams had reportedly told his commissioners in a Monday morning meeting not to criticize Trump or interfere with immigration enforcement in the city. Then, the mayor’s name was strangely missing from a list of New York officials the Justice Department sued on Wednesday over the state’s “sanctuary cities,” one of which Adams runs. “We’re hoping that in New York, that Mayor Adams is going to cooperate with us with the sanctuary cities and the illegal aliens,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said when announcing the suit, dangling the fact that the charges hadn’t been officially dropped yet as a reminder of what could lie in store for him..........................................

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