Federal prosecutors released sworn statements and other records detailing key moments in a corruption case that roiled New York City.
Months after federal prosecutors in Manhattan secured a five-count corruption indictment against Mayor Eric Adams of New York, federal authorities were still forging ahead with their investigation into his dealings.
They obtained a new warrant authorizing them to search the phone of a person they believed had evidence of fraud and federal program bribery related to Mr. Adams’s 2021 and 2025 mayoral campaigns.
Three days later, on Feb. 10, the Trump administration ordered them to abandon the case.
The warrant, one of dozens signed by federal judges during the nearly four-year bribery and fraud inquiry into Mr. Adams, was included among some 1,700 pages of records released late Friday in response to a request by The New York Times and The New York Post.
Judge Dale E. Ho granted the government’s request to dismiss the charges against Mr. Adams last month. Critics said Mr. Adams and the Trump administration engaged in a corrupt quid pro quo, trading dismissal of the case for help cracking down on illegal immigration. Mr. Adams maintains he did nothing wrong and has suggested that God used the Trump administration to correct a grievous injustice.
In a statement on Friday, his lawyer, Alex Spiro, said the case “should never have been brought in the first place and is now over.” A spokesman for the federal prosecutor’s office in Manhattan declined to comment.
The documents generated during the lengthy investigation of Mr. Adams, including search warrants, sworn statements by F.B.I. agents and other materials, shed light on key moments in the run-up to the first indictment of a sitting mayor in modern New York City history, even if they represent just a fraction of the warrants and other materials generated by the case.
