The NYPD was already in a leadership crisis after separate federal investigation resulted in the resignation of former Commissioner Edward Caban. Roughly a week after taking over, Acting Commissioner Thomas Donlon — a former FBI agent — was himself raided by the FBI last month.

A lawyer for Eric Adams filed a motion to dismiss the bribery charge against the mayor as “extraordinarily vague” and unsupported by substantial evidence.

An Indiana mayor's successful Supreme Court battle against Justice Department overreach could boost New York City Mayor Eric Adams as he fights his own charges.

Alex Spiro, who is representing the New York City mayor in a federal criminal case, admonished prosecutors’ “little press conferences.”

Attorneys for New York City Mayor Eric Adams urged a federal judge Monday to dismiss the bribery charge brought last week, accusing “zealous prosecutors” of leveling an “extraordinarily vague allegation” that does not rise to the level of a federal crime.

Mayor Eric Adams' defense lawyer filed a brief on Tuesday morning charging Manhattan federal prosecutors with violating the mayor's right to a fair trial by leaking grand jury testimony about his federal corruption charges to the press.

But I want to place this in a different bucket than the usual run-of-the-mill public corruption case. It belongs instead to a new breed of criminal prosecutions targeting the foreign corruption of U.S.