The Justice Department on Monday moved to drop the criminal charges against Mayor Eric Adams, saying that the case came too close to the primary in June and impeded his work with President Trump in cracking down on immigrants, according to a memo viewed by THE CITY. The news was first reported by The New […]

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Mayor Eric Adams gathered his top commissioners and officials early Monday to give marching orders under the new administration: don’t criticize President Trump, don’t interfere with immigration enforcement and trust the mayor, multiple sources told THE CITY. Adams scheduled the approximately hour-long meeting, which was held at the Municipal Building, late Friday, after days of […]

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The head of Brooklyn’s vaunted Conviction Review Unit has left to create a small law firm specializing in wrongful conviction cases.  Charles Linehan, 54, quietly resigned Jan. 17 after a three-year stint in charge of the 16-person unit that has garnered national headlines for the Brooklyn district attorney’s office.  During Linehan’s tenure, the unit exonerated […]

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A onetime senior aide to Mayor Eric Adams who was charged with organizing an illegal straw donor scheme for the mayor has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office revealed Friday. Mohamed Bahi, formerly one of the mayor’s liaisons to the Muslim community, was initially charged in October with witness tampering […]

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This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. New York state is shuttering all live bird markets in New York City, as well as in Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk counties, for the next week, following the recent detection of bird flu among some poultry in city markets. During a virtual briefing on […]

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