NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Mayor Eric Adams’ legal team requested in a new filing Tuesday night that his public corruption case be paused until Jan. 20—the day of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration—1010 WINS confirmed.
The request comes two days after Trump said at a freewheeling press conference at his Mar-a-Lago club that he would consider pardoning the embattled mayor, who is under a five-count indictment that alleges he solicited bribes and illegal campaign donations from foreign operatives in exchange for his political influence.
“I think that he was treated pretty unfairly,” Trump said, though he acknowledged that he doesn’t “know the facts.”
Adams’ attorney Alex Spiro recounts in the filing obtained by 1010 WINS that the court denied of the defense’s motion to dismiss a bribery charge levied against him, and it denied a motion to advance the trial date, which is presently scheduled for April 21, two months before the mayoral primary.
Spiro wrote that in light of these decisions, and because of “the lack of specificity” in the bribery and other charges written in the indictment, that “Adams intends to seek leave to file a motion for a bill of particulars this week.”
Due to the anticipated filing, “and because counsel for Mayor Adams is currently out of state and actively engaged on other matters,” Spiro requested on behalf of his client that the conference be adjourned until after Jan. 20.
This date was chosen as it succeeds the filing of the government’s Classified Information Procedures Act motion on Jan. 17, Spiro said.
Adams is due back in court for a status hearing on Friday, though Spiro said that the mayor has “no additional issues to raise,” and requested that if the conference moves forward, it be held over the phone.