Posted on 02/20/2025 1:15:26 PM PST by FreeReign
NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul won't immediately remove New York City Mayor Eric Adams from office, but will instead push for increased oversight of City Hall as he faces intense scrutiny over his relationship with the Trump administration.
Hochul will announce Thursday that she has, for now, decided against removing Adams from office, according to three people familiar with the governor's plan who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to disclose its details.
The decision came after she solicited opinions this week from a roster of New York political figures over questions about whether Adams could independently govern after the Justice Department moved to drop his corruption case so he could help with Republican President Donald Trump's immigration agenda.
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How "mighty white" of Hochul.
It’s almost as if New York City has lots of votes that this tyrant governor needs.
I guess she decided getting charges dropped wasn’t enough to remove him.
Can’t lets the house servants get to uppity.
Suspicious timing.
Pull back the threats in wake of Patel confirmation.
So this is political tyranny, we are disturbed by your relationship with the president of the united states, what the hell is this china?
Gov Hokum is afraid of Adams spilling his guts if removed.
So this was strictly political decision made with politicians
Hochul is so brave and inciteful,.. but only with asking for political backing
How bold of her .. s/ !
I was just about to post the exact same thing. Great minds and all that.
They are going after a black man because he engaged with Trump to solve problems. Is he crook probably but that used to be a resume enhancer for Democrats. The governor removes him and Democrats lose even more of the black vote
Say whaaaaaat??? Talk about a threat to democracy!
Back in 1931, Gov. Franklin Roosevelt fired New York City Mayor James Walker over a scandal involving a kidnapping scheme hatched by him and the NYPD to make money for the city. FDR gave him 24 hours to load his ill-gotten gains onto an ocean liner bound for France before the arrest warrant would come down.
Walker lived like a king in Paris.
CBS Propagandist Margaret Brennan: Joining us now is Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin he is the top Democrat on the house Judiciary Committee. This episode is highly unusual, um, is there anything that you in your role can do about this episode and what's happening inside Attorney General Bondi's justice department?
The Dishonorable Jamie Raskin: Well, the Justice Department is at war with its own attorneys, its own prosecutors, um, and the whole episode is just saturated with corruption. It was a corrupt corruption prosecution and investigation which led to a grand jury indictment against, uh, Eric Adams for bribery, conspiracy, other corruption, uh, charges and then the new Department of Justice decided to squash the whole thing basically saying to Adams "Well, we will drop this case against you if you engage in certain kinds of political or policy accommodations with us" and then in order to complete that deeply corrupt bargain they had to try to coerce their own lawyers to do it.
But of course the prosecutors were saying nothing has changed in the facts of the case and nothing has changed in the law. In fact additional evidence was found, uh, meaning that they were going to revise and expand the original indictment but instead they were told to kill it for political reasons and so, um, you know this is, uh, an outrageous violation of the rules of prosecutors and an offense against due process and a very dangerous first move for the Department of Justice to be making under the Trump people.
Mayor Adams, of course, claims there was no quid pro quo and that none of this, um, was wrong but there was the lead prosecutor as well on this case who resigned in objection to what's happening; but it it's moving forward. Here this is all now in the hands of a judge. Does he have leeway to prosecute so the, um, first of all just about Danielle Sassoon? I mean that's a very conservative, uh, U.S. attorney and she couldn't take it. I mean you have the most conservative prosecutors in the country resigning, uh, in opposition to this steamroller on behalf of corruption.
But it's not over yet because Judge Dale Ho does not have to accept the withdrawal of the charges - the dismissal of the charges - which seven Department of Justice attorneys resigned rather than be involved in the head of the public, uh, Integrity Section the head of the Criminal Division. Five other lawyers said no way and they wrote very stinging rebukes of the Attorney General and the Department of Justice in this case so Judge Ho has to accept this dismissal. But he may not. He may go ahead and try to appoint, uh, another prosecutor to go ahead and, uh, you know go through with the indictment that was handed down by Grand Jury. Well, Attorney General Bondi says there's nothing wrong here, um, saying it was President Biden's weaponized DOJ that went after Adams for political reasons, um, and only after he criticized President Biden's immigration policies.
Brennan: This is a fellow Democrat. Do you think he should be prosecuted and how do you respond to that allegation?
Raskin: Well first of all the Attorney General did not cite any changes in the facts of the case. She did not cite any changes in the law because neither occurred nor did she cite any irregularities in the investigation or the prosecution made up. Well then she's she's mimicking her boss, then, who just lies as a matter of of course. One would expect more from the Attorney General of the United States and, uh, you know this whole, uh, corruption attack, uh, that is an attack on the Department of Justice for engaging in corruption prosecutions, uh, could be impeachable in a different political environment. But the fact that Mayor Adams is a Democrat is neither here nor there for me. I'm against corruption across the board. it seems like Donald Trump wants to attract all of the corrupt politicians in America to his side.
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You have to keep in mind that during Raskin's brain cancer the doctors removed the brain and left the tumor. He lived anyway.
Yes and no.
There must be legal reason.
And “he cooperated with Trump” isn’t a good enough reason.
If she interferes too much in the execution of due federal law i.e. immigration, SHE can be arrested.
Bitch be up to something. Maybe Trump ‘quietly’ told her that her tolls (not the new stuff - that’s already gone, but the tolls on bridges and tunnels that have been around for probably 100 years) could be reviewed for compliance with the Interstate Commerce Clause.
Why are New York Democrats such a threat to democracy?
Hochul has more pressing issues—how to keep herself out of prison for blatant conspiracy to violate the immigration laws.
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