Mayor Eric Adams may have dodged a legal bullet when the Trump Justice Department announced plans to pause his criminal prosecution. But the decision in Washington, D.C., does not block local NYC district attorneys from seeking their own corruption charges,

Mayor Eric Adams thanked President Trump’s Department of Justice on Tuesday for moving to dismiss his public corruption indictment, saying the unusual step puts an end to “the most difficult” period in his life.

The Justice Department on Monday told federal prosecutors in Manhattan to drop the corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York.