By Nelson A. King\Caribbean Life
Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia Commons
On Wednesday, Jamaican-American New York City Mayoral Candidate, the Rev. Michael Blake, condemned a federal judge’s dismissal of corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
On Wednesday, Manhattan Federal Judge Dale Ho dismissed “with prejudice” the sweeping public corruption charges against Adams, ruling that “There may or may not be good reasons to drop this prosecution. But the reasons articulated by DOJ (President Donal J. Trump’s Department of Justice), if taken at face value, are inconsistent with a decision to leave the charges in the Indictment hanging like the proverbial Sword of Damocles over the mayor.”
But Rev. Blake, the son of Jamaican immigrants, told Caribbean Life, “The dropping of the charges against Eric Adams doesn’t change the obvious: Eric Adams likely broke the law with an illegal campaign donation pay-to-play scheme.
“He is just being saved by a Trump Justice Department that expects him to be their lackey,” said Blake, one of prospective nine candidates vying to oppose the mayor in the June Democratic Primary. READ MORE…
