New York City Mayor Eric Adams arrives for a court hearing at Thurgood Marshall Courthouse on February 19, 2025 in New York City.
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul is set to announce Thursday afternoon that she will not remove embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams from office “right now,” according to a source familiar with the situation.
But Hochul plans to impose strict “guardrails” on her fellow Democrat Adams’ administration, the source said.
Hochul has scheduled a 4 p.m. ET news conference to discuss her decision about Adams.
The mayor was indicted last year on federal criminal corruption charges. Since then, he has sought to curry favor with President Donald Trump, a Republican who is widely unpopular in the heavily Democratic city.
The Department of Justice last week asked a judge in U.S. District Court in Manhattan to dismiss the case.
The judge, Dale Ho, conducted a hearing on that request Wednesday but ended it by saying he would rule later.
Seven federal prosecutors, including the interim Manhattan U.S. Attorney, resigned in protest of an order by a top DOJ official to dismiss the case.
The DOJ argues that the dismissal is necessary to avoid harming Adams’ ability to cooperate with the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies, and on the mayor’s ability to seek reelection this year.
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