New York City Mayor Eric Adams is holding a news conference Tuesday, hours after a Department of Justice official said the agency ordered the corruption case against him to be dismissed. Acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove instructed prosecutors for the Southern District of New York to dismiss all charges against the mayor,

Trump DOJ lawyer Emil Bove wrote that bribery charges against New York City's mayor should be dismissed "without prejudice," meaning they could come back.

The Justice Department's directive to drop the criminal prosecution of New York Mayor Eric Adams is one more example that relationships, allegiances and vendettas are in some cases determining who gets targeted − and who gets reprieved − in the age of Donald Trump.