Paul Cassell notes here that the lawyers for Eric Adams have denied, and have offered to make their denial under oath, that there was any prior negotiated quid pro quo involved in the deal under which the DOJ has moved for a dismissal of criminal charges against Mayor Adams. The lawyers wrote:
What we never said or suggested to anyone was that Mayor Adams would do X in exchange for Y, and no one said or suggested to us that they would do Y in exchange for X.
As a consequence, Cassell writes, "the argument that the dismissal motion is inappropriate because a quid pro quo was negotiated has effectively collapsed. Period." (emphasis added). [Though Cassell adds: "To be sure, as noted in my earlier post, one can still legitimately debate whether the dismissal motion was appropriate."]
