New York City Mayor Eric Adams, whose criminal corruption case was dismissed with prejudice earlier this month, has suggested that God had a hand in the outcome of the legal action against him by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York.
Adams was formally indicted last September on charges that he took some $10 million in bribes and illegal campaign donations from foreign nationals in exchange for favors.
District Judge Dale Ho dismissed the case in a 21-page order and opinion earlier this month, while challenging some arguments made by the Department of Justice that pushed for the dismissal by saying the case “is tainted with impropriety,” “detrimental to national security and immigration enforcement” and “was a weak case to begin with.”
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Speaking to a full house at the Temple of Restoration Church in Brooklyn on Sunday, Adams suggested it was God’s will for his life that prevailed, according to Gothamist.
“When the indictment was dismissed, people said, ‘Who was it dismissed by?’ I said it then and I’ll say it now. God uses who he uses,” Adams said. “And it is not me to question God. It’s me to understand God.”
Adams, who is mounting an independent campaign for reelection, said he is convinced that God will also be in charge of the outcome.
“I don’t know what the future holds for me,” he said. “But it’s not determined by the outcome of what people think it’s determined by. In my darkest moments, I knew they were never burials. They were only planters for the next level of what I’m supposed to do.”
Adams’ comments emerged as three Assistant United States attorneys resigned from the Southern District of New York in a letter to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday, in which they accuse him of pressuring them to falsely “express regret and admit some wrongdoing” in the case.
“The Department placed each of us on administrative leave ostensibly to review our, and the Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney’s Office’s, handling of the Adams case. It is now clear that one of the preconditions you have placed on our returning to the Office is that we must express regret and admit some wrongdoing by the Office in connection with the refusal to move to dismiss the case,” wrote the attorneys, Celia V. Cohen, Andrew Rohrbach and Derek Wikstrom. “We will not confess wrongdoing when there was none.”
They further added: “Serving in the Southern District of New York has been an honor. There is no greater privilege than to work for an institution whose mandate is to do the right thing, the right way, for the right reasons. We will not abandon this principle to keep our jobs. We resign.”
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