On Friday afternoon around 4:45 p.m., President Donald Trump's Department of Justice obeyed a court order from the federal judge in the now-dismissed federal corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams, and dumped more than 1,700 pages of unsealed evidence against Adams and his alleged co-conspirators into the public record.
The documents are being made public thanks to a request from attorneys for the New York Times and Inner City Press, who persuaded Judge Dale Ho that since Trump's lawyers forced his hand to make the case against Adams disappear, New Yorkers might as well get to see what the case was made of.
And now, we have our answer: Hard drives, cell phone records, bank records, campaign finance accounts, iCloud accounts, WhatsApp messages, and Mayor Adams's AOL account, all smashed into various search warrants and affidavits scattered with black box redactions, summing up the government's case against the mayor.