NYC Mayor Adams lawyer takes victory lap after Trump DOJ orders feds to drop historic corruption case: There is no looming threat

Mayor Eric Adams’ lawyer took a victory lap Wednesday — hailing the Department of Justice for ordering Manhattan federal prosecutors to drop Hizzoner’s historic corruption case — and claiming New York City would be “better off.”In a theatric press conference, attorney Alex Spiro called the case — in which Adams is charged with doing favors for Turkish diplomats in exchange for $123,000 worth of travel perk bribes — “ticky tacky,” and suggested that the threat of prison time hanging over his head hindered the mayor’s ability to run the city.“Is this city and the government better off with the Mayor having a ticky tacky case that’s legally infirm and factually suspect hanging over his and the rest of New York’s heads?” Spiro told reporters assembled in a conference room in the ritzy Midtown office of his law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP.Spiro, speaking from a lectern, argued that the decision to bring the charges against the mayor was driven by politics — while not providing hard evidence to support his claim.“Are we better off with a world in which that doesn’t happen?” Spiro asked.“And are we better off with a system where we don’t have to sit up at night wondering what really was the motivation?”Spiro also declared that the feds’ case was “over,” despite the fact that prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have yet to respond to the demand from President Trump’s DOJ.And the memo released earlier this week from interim DOJ No.2 Emil Bove raised the possibility that Manhattan prosecutors could revive the case — which also charges Adams with ripping off taxpayers by getting phony city matching funds based on tens of thousands of illegal donations from Turks — after the mayoral election in November.

But Spiro insisted Wednesday that that would not happen.“There is no looming threat.This case is over.

This case will never be brought back,” he claimed.He derided it as the “airlin...