A massive cache of documents in Mayor Eric Adams’ historic corruption case was unsealed on Friday — giving the public an inside look at the prosecution that will never materialize in a federal courtroom.
The 1,785 pages of court filings, unveiled after The Post and other outlets demanded access, are set to include unredacted warrants, such as the one for Hizzoner’s cellphone that agents seized on a New York City street.
Some 50 court exhibits were included in the document dump.
Affidavits describing evidence collected in the case are also expected to be revealed.
Manhattan Federal Judge Dale Ho ordered that documents be made public last month, siding with the media that the release was in the best interest of New Yorkers as the city enters election season with City Hall up for grabs on the November ballot.
Adams’ corruption case was dismissed, with no option to resurrect the case on the federal level, in early April by Judge Ho who broke the Department of Justice, which wanted the ability to potentially prosecute Adams at a later date.
Ho ruled the Trump administration should not be able to hold the case over the mayor’s head while he runs the Big Apple.
Ho skewered the DOJ’s dismissal motion in his long-awaited 78-page ruling, writing, “Everything here smacks of a bargain.”
“[D]ismissal of the indictment in exchange for immigration policy concessions.”
Days after The Post and New York Times, along with other third parties, urged the judge to release the sealed documents.
Ho granted the motion on March 28, ordering the DOJ to drop the document by May 2.
The feds, though, blew the deadline and asked the judge the next day for more time, delaying the release a week.
Adams became the first sitting New York City mayor to be indicted last September when a five-count indictment was unsealed, accusing him of accepting tens of thousands of dollars in luxury travel by foreign officials looking to buy influence in City Hall.
Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York had also said they had evidence that Adams lied to the feds and destroyed evidence, the details of which were expected to come down in an expanded indictment.
The mayor has repeatedly denied all wrongdoing.
The controversial dismissal request by then-Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove put Adams in a political quagmire, leading to a mass exodus in the top ranks of his administration and Gov. Hochul considering removing him from office.
Bove had told the judge that the mayor needed the case to go away so he could assist the new Trump admin with its immigration plans, not on the merits of the case.
The shocking February filing also sparked a series of resignations inside the SDNY, including the interim head of the department, Danielle Sassoon, and a half-dozen prosecutors in Washington DC, who worked on the case.
The same week it emerged the dismissal request was in the works, Adams sat down with border czar Tom Homan and agreed to find a way to reopen ICE offices on Rikers Island. The effort has since stalled as the City Council fights the recent executive order in court.
It took more than six weeks for Ho to rule on the request, which Adams said forced him to withdraw from the Democratic primary and instead set his sights on the general elections as a long-shot third-party candidate.