Judge Sets Date for NYC Mayor Eric Adams’s Bribery and Corruption Trial

Adams’s attorney had asked for a March 2025 trial to conclude before the June 2025 New York City mayoral primary.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams exits Gracie Mansion in New York, on Sept. 26, 2024. Adams has been charged with five offenses: conspiracy to commit wire fraud, federal program bribery, solicitation of a contribution by a foreign national, wire fraud, and bribery. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images

NEW YORK CITY—A Manhattan judge has scheduled New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s federal trial to begin in April 2025, just two months before next year’s Democratic primary in which Adams intends to seek reelection.

U.S. District Judge Dale Ho said during a court hearing on Nov. 1 that Adams will go to trial on April 21, 2025, a date that lands squarely amid Adams’s anticipated reelection campaign.