Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs Four top New York City officials are resigning after the Justice Department moved to dismiss Mayor Eric Adams’s corruption case in apparent exchange for his help with President Trump’s deportation agenda, according to three people with knowledge of their plans and an email sent by one of the aides on Monday.The four officials — Maria Torres-Springer, the first deputy mayor, and Meera Joshi, Anne Williams-Isom and Chauncey Parker, all also deputy mayors — oversee much of New York City government, and their departure in the coming days is poised to blow a devastating hole in the already wounded administration of Mayor Eric Adams.Mr. Adams, a Democrat, is forcefully resisting growing calls to resign. Gov. Kathy Hochul is also under increasing pressure to remove him from office.The four officials who are leaving office are all respected government veterans. Ms. Torres-Springer was elevated to the second most powerful job at City Hall in October in an effort to stabilize city government and restore confidence in the Adams administration following the mayor’s federal indictment in September on five counts, including bribery and fraud.The departing deputy mayors met with Mr. Adams on Friday and told him that he had not done his job as a leader, according to a city official briefed on the matter. The meeting was first reported by Politico.Increasingly, the deputy mayors felt that they were not merely working for an indicted mayor, but for someone whose personal interests were outweighing the interests of New Yorkers, according to another person briefed on the matter. They found this untenable, the person said.On Monday, Ms. Joshi sent an email to her staff in which she announced that she, Ms. Williams-Isom and Ms. Torres-Springer were departing and shared a joint statement from all three.“Due to the extraordinary events of the last few weeks and to stay faithful to the oaths we swore to New Yorkers and our families, we have come to the difficult decision to step down from our roles,” they said in the statement, which was obtained by The New York Times.“While our time in this administration will come to a close, our support for the incredible public servants across the administration with whom we have stood shoulder to shoulder and our championing of this great city and all it stands for will never cease,” the email said.The departure of the fourth official, Mr. Parker, is particularly notable because as the deputy mayor for public safety, he has been deeply involved in issues around the city’s role in the president’s deportation plans.The planned exit of the four key officials means that half of New York City’s eight deputy mayors are leaving City Hall. It remains unclear who will replace them and if this will precipitate further departures from the commissioners who report to them.Three of the intended resignations were first reported by WNBC.“As we always say, if and when we have personnel announcements to make, we will make them,” said Kayla Mamelak Altus, a spokeswoman for the mayor.The officials’ expected departure would cap five months of instability in an administration that at times has veered toward chaos. First the mayor was indicted on federal bribery and fraud charges, and then a deluge of other unrelated federal corruption investigations swept through City Hall.Those inquiries led to the resignations of half a dozen of his most senior aides who had their phones seized by federal authorities: two successive police commissioners within three months of one another; his prior first deputy mayor and deputy mayor for public safety; his schools chancellor and a senior adviser who was one of his closest confidants. Then, in December, the mayor’s top adviser, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, resigned shortly before the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, obtained an indictment charging her and her son with bribery and other crimes.Ms. Torres-Springer, Ms. Joshi, Ms. Williams-Isom and Mr. Parker were understood to act as a counterweight to the perception that the mayor’s loyalists were running amok at City Hall.Once Mr. Trump’s administration moved to dismiss the charges against the mayor, the presence of the four deputy mayors was viewed as a bulwark against the president’s influence at City Hall. Now it remains unclear who is left to serve in that role.The president first entered the picture in the fall, when Mr. Adams publicly sidled up to him — both rhetorically and actually. The mayor met the president at a political gala in Manhattan and at a prize fight at Madison Square Garden. In the weeks preceding the November election, the mayor declined to name Kamala Harris as his choice for president, despite having endorsed her. He also chided his party colleagues for describing Mr. Trump as a fascist.After the election, Mr. Adams traveled to Palm Beach, Fla., in January to lunch with Mr. Trump, and then traveled to Washington, D.C., to sit in the overflow room at Mr. Trump’s inauguration.Mr. Adams’s lawyers promptly sought a pardon from Mr. Trump once he took office. The pardon was not forthcoming.But in February, just weeks after federal prosecutors in Manhattan said they had uncovered “additional criminal conduct” by the mayor, one of Mr. Trump’s top deputies at the Justice Department directed them to ask the judge presiding over the mayor’s case to dismiss his indictment.The respected prosecutor whom Mr. Trump had appointed as U.S. attorney to oversee the office on an interim basis, Danielle R. Sassoon, chose to resign instead, after writing an explosive letter detailing what she characterized as an inappropriate backroom deal that prioritized politics over the interests of justice. She also wrote that the office had been planning to charge the mayor with obstruction of justice in a new indictment.The mayor’s “advocacy should be called out for what it is: an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case,” Ms. Sassoon said.The lead prosecutor in the case against Mr. Adams, Hagan Scotten, also resigned, issuing a blistering resignation letter suggesting only a “fool” or a “coward” would obey the Trump administration’s edict to seek the dismissal of the case.Then, five other Justice Department lawyers in Washington who either oversaw or prosecuted public corruption cases also stepped down rather than sign the court papers at the direction of the acting deputy attorney general, Emil Bove III.The episode “raises serious questions involving both the potential quid pro quo and prosecutorial weaponization of our justice system,” said the New York City Bar Association, in a statement issued Monday.Jeffery C. Mays contributed reporting.
