What's next in Mayor Adams' legal battles? A former federal prosecutor walks through next steps

WNYC News | Feb 11, 2025

The Justice Department’s move to dismiss Mayor Adams’s federal corruption charges isn’t necessarily the end of the road for the Mayor’s legal troubles.

Daniel Richman is a former federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and currently the Paul J. Kellner Professor of law at Columbia Law School. He talked with WNYC's Sean Carlson about what’s supposed to happen next.

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