A judge scrutinized the Justice Department‘s controversial decision to drop corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams during a hearing on Wednesday and did not issue any rulings from the bench, further prolonging the case’s drawn-out end.
Judge Dale Ho, a Biden appointee, held the hearing to address what he said in court was a “somewhat unusual situation” in which the DOJ attempted to end a criminal case against a prominent public official but was met with significant backlash from its own prosecutors.
“It’s not in anyone’s interest here for this case to drag on,” Ho said, according to multiple reports from the courtroom in the Southern District of New York.
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The court must authorize the dismissal of Adams’s charges, and Ho said he
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