Mayor Adams’ lead protection lawyer slammed prosecutors in a court docket submitting Monday, saying the feds have themselves interfered with the mayor’s federal case by leaking data to the press — and claimed the feds don’t have the proof to convey a superseding indictment.
Alex Spiro, the lawyer, wrote that the prosecutors have “peddled wide-ranging and false accusations” about Adams which have little backing even after going by means of over two dozen witness statements and thousands and thousands of pages of discovery supplies.
“The government’s ‘evidence’ thus reveals what defense counsel knew all along: this caseis an egregious overreach by prosecutors with no interest in a search for the truth,” Spiro wrote within the letter.
Spiro’s submitting follows a letter filed final week by prosecutors that accused Adams’ authorized workforce of unfairly attempting to skew public opinion with statements within the press — together with the mayor’s declare that the case was political retribution for the mayor’s criticism of President Biden over the migrant disaster.
That declare, prosecutors wrote within the Thursday letter, is unfaithful as a result of the investigation started in 2021 — earlier than Adams was elected mayor and round a 12 months earlier than Adams began being outspoken concerning the migrant disaster. Spiro’s response didn’t tackle this rivalry. He declined to remark.
In hios movement, Spiro mentioned the invention data — which embody information and communications from over 50 cellphones and different units, plus statements from 25 witnesses — present Adams had no information of any felony wrongdoing.
“That is why the government has tellingly not superseded its indictment despite indicating months ago at the first conference it was ‘quite likely’ and ‘moving quickly’ to do so — the incriminating evidence the government hoped to obtain does not exist,” Spiro wrote.
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Mayor Eric Adams and his lawyer Alex Spiro in September. (Getty)
Prosecutors for the case have mentioned the investigation is ongoing and that they might hit the mayor with extra costs.
A variety of present and former members of the Adams administration are going through a number of federal and state corruption probes. His former second-in-command, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, was indicted final week, and several other different members of the administration, almost all of whom have since left the administration, have additionally been ensared in investigations.
Adams is charged with bribery, fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud and obtain unlawful overseas marketing campaign contributions and soliciting unlawful overseas marketing campaign contributions. He has denied all the fees. Adams’ workforce tried to get the bribery court docket dismissed, however Decide Dale Ho rejected that try earlier this month.
The decide additionally tossed out earlier claims about leaks to the media, referring to reporting by the New York Instances on the event of the investigation. Ho dominated that Adams’ arguments lacked clear proof displaying the tales had been illegally leaked.
