The mayor earlier this month asked the judge overseeing his case to dismiss the bribery count against him, describing the underlying allegations he did the bidding of Turkish officials as

Manhattan federal prosecutors, in a Friday court filing, rebuffed Mayor Eric Adams’ attempt to throw out one of the five criminal charges leveled against him last month. In the legal papers filed by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York on Oct.

Mayor Eric Adams might think it’s “common” to accept tens of thousands of dollars in benefits in exchange for pressuring a city agency, but it is “nonetheless illegal,” federal prosecutors argued Friday in opposing the mayor’s motion to toss a bribery count in his sweeping corruption case.