The governor weighs to eliminate the mayor of New York, Adams, after his main deputies resigned in the midst of criminal agitation

The interim attached attorney general Emil Bove wrote that the case had “unduly restricted the ability of Mayor Adams to dedicate all the attention and resources to illegal immigration and violent crime.”

“I recognize the immense responsibility I have as governor and the constitutional powers awarded to this office,” Hochul said in a statement. “In the 235 years of the history of the state of New York, these powers have never been used to eliminate a duly elected mayor; Voling the will of voters is a serious step that should not be taken lightly. That said, the alleged conduct in the City Council that has been reported in the last two weeks is worrying and cannot be ignored. “

The city letter establishes a process similar to the Court by which the governor must first serve the mayor with a copy of positions that he feels guarantees his removal, and then gives him “the opportunity to be heard in his defense.” But there is little precedent or plan of how that would work. As Hochul pointed out in his statement, the elimination powers have never been used against a mayor in the history of New York.

Earlier on Monday, Adams confirmed the departures of Torres-Springer, the vice mayor of the Meera Joshi operations, the Vice Advocate of Health and Human Services Anne Williams-Isom and the Vice Address of Public Security Chauny Parker.

“I am disappointed to see them leave, but given the current challenges, I understand their decision and I wish you nothing more than success in the future,” said Adams, who faces several challenges in the June Democratic primaries. “But make me clear: New York City will continue to move forward, just like every day.”

Torres-Springer, Joshi and Williams-Isom told the agency’s chiefs and staff in a memorandum they were dating due to “the extraordinary events of recent weeks.” They did not give a date for their departures, but Adams said that they and Parker will remain “for the moment to guarantee a perfect transition.”

Bove’s directive for prosecutors to drop the case of Adams fired fire storms within the Department of Justice and New York’s political circles, with seven federal prosecutors resigned in protest, including the United States interim prosecutor for Manhattan, and the democrats who asked Adams to resign.

On Friday, after a week of recriminations and resignations, Bove and a couple of officials of the Washington Department of Justice intervened and presented documents asking the federal judge of Manhattan, Dale E. Ho, to dismiss the case. Ho has not yet taken measures in the application.

Adams, a former police captain, declared himself innocent last September of the positions that he accepted more than $ 100,000 in illegal campaign contributions and luxurious trips of travel from foreign citizens seeking to buy their influence while he was the president of Brooklyn County , campaign to be mayor.

The Department of Justice said in its presentation on Friday that I was trying to dismiss Adams charges with the option to fill them back later, what critics see as a carrot to guarantee its fulfillment of the objectives of the Republican President. In his memorandum ordering prosecutors to leave the case, Bove said that the new and permanent American lawyer would review the matter after the November elections.

“Certainly it seems that President Trump is delaying the mayor,” the Reverend to Sharpton, an ally of Adams, said Tuesday. “I have supported the mayor, but he has been put in an unfair position, even for him, of essentially political blackmail.”

The president of the City Council, Adrienne Adams, became the last Democrat to call the mayor to resign, saying that with the resignations of the mayor, it is clear that “he has now lost the confidence of his own staff, his colleagues in the government and the New Yorkers. ” The Adams speaker is not related to the mayor.

Other leaders, including democratic representatives Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Nydia Velázquez, and lieutenant governor Antonio Delgado, have asked Adams to resign.

The drama about the legal case of ADAMS was developed when the mayor met with Trump’s border tsar in New York on Thursday and announced greater cooperation in the efforts of the Trump administration to eliminate immigrants, including the restoration of an office For immigration authorities in the notorious Rikers Island prison in the city.

In their memorandum to staff announcing their exits, Torres-Springer, Joshi and Williams-Isom wrote: “Due to the extraordinary events of recent weeks and to keep us faithful to the oaths that we swear in New Yorkers and our families, we have come to the Difficult decision to give up our roles. “