On Wednesday, NEW YORK, CMC –Jamaican-American New York Metropolis Mayoral Candidate, the Rev. Michael Blake, condemned a United States federal choose’s dismissal of corruption costs towards New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams.
On Wednesday, Manhattan Federal Choose Dale Ho dismissed “with prejudice” the sweeping public corruption costs towards Adams, ruling that “There could or will not be good causes to drop this prosecution. However the causes articulated by DOJ ( Division of Justice), if taken at face worth, are inconsistent with a call to depart the costs within the Indictment hanging just like the proverbial Sword of Damocles over the mayor.”
Nevertheless, Blake, the son of Jamaican immigrants, instructed the Caribbean Media Company (CMC) that “the dropping of the costs towards Eric Adams doesn’t change the apparent: Eric Adams probably broke the regulation with an unlawful marketing campaign donation pay-to-play scheme.
“He’s simply being saved by a Trump Justice Division that expects him to be their lackey,” mentioned Blake, one among potential 9 candidates vying to oppose the mayor within the June Democratic Main.
“Choose Ho bowing to King Trump by dropping costs is the most recent assault on our perception in authorities,” he added. “We want judges who will demand accountability—not flip a blind eye to blatant corruption.
“The timing will not be a shock, on condition that it’s the day earlier than MAGA Eric must resolve if he’s nonetheless operating as a Democrat,” Blake continued. “As soon as once more, Trump and Elon (Musk) try to save lots of Eric.
“Trump continues creating authorized chaos and worry—not hope or order,” he mentioned. “Immediately is the most recent reminder that we desperately want a brand new technology of Black management.”
New York Metropolis Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, who has no relations with the mayor, mentioned Ho’s choice “doesn’t absolve Mayor Adams of his actions.
“It additionally doesn’t finish the chaos and disgrace this has introduced on our metropolis with different ongoing prison instances and investigations of the mayor’s workplace,” mentioned Speaker Adams, who is predicted to be among the many mayor’s challengers within the June Main. “As Choose Ho acknowledged in his ruling, ‘Every thing right here smacks of a discount: Dismissal of the indictment in trade for immigration coverage concessions.’
“Our metropolis’s mayor ought to by no means be within the place of bargaining away New Yorkers and their rights,” she mentioned. “The extraordinary choice was solely brought on by the quid professional quo tried between the Trump administration and Eric Adams.
“It sends a horrible message and is a obvious instance of double requirements in our justice system, the place the highly effective evade accountability that the typical individual typically faces,” Speaker Adams added. “This undermines equal justice below the regulation, which must be a pillar of our justice system.
“New Yorkers deserve robust, unbiased, and targeted management that gained’t bend or cower to Trump and Elon Musk,” she continued. “Defending our metropolis and dealing households from their assaults should be our high precedence, with out the distractions and instability which have compromised this administration.”
On Wednesday, Choose Ho dismissed the costs towards Adams “with prejudice,” which means they can’t be refiled sooner or later.
Final month, Caribbean immigration advocates strongly condemned Adams’s look earlier than the US Congressional Committee on Oversight amid heightened requires his resignation over reported collusion with Trump over mass deportations.
