The U.S. Justice Department has directed Manhattan prosecutors to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Emil Bove, Trump’s acting deputy attorney general, wrote that the DOJ decided to interfere because the indictment against Adams created a hurdle in Adams’s ability to carry out Trump’s crackdown on immigrant communities. The DOJ is calling for the charges to be dropped without prejudice, meaning they can be revived in the future. The order came on the same day that Adams reportedly ordered his staff not to publicly criticize Trump and not to intervene with federal immigration enforcement. This comes amid mounting confusion and mixed messages from the Adams administration over how workers should respond to ICE if they show up at city buildings like schools and hospitals. Last month, Eric Adams traveled to Palm Beach to personally meet with Trump and attended his inauguration. Queens assemblymember and New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani said, “In the midst of a right-wing billionaire assault on the working class of our city, [Eric Adams] sold us out for another personal favor.”