Mayor Adams, who will appear in court Wednesday morning, is pushing back against his federal indictment with furious motions as the corruption charges begin to show first signs of weaknesses. On Tuesday his defense attorney, Alex Spiro, accused the government of leaking “sensitive information” to the press. This comes one day after he filed a motion to dismiss one of the five charges. The presiding federal judge, Dale Ho, will hear arguments at the district court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday. 

“Since at least November 2023,” Mr. Spiro fumed in his motion on Tuesday, “The New York Times and other prominent news outlets have published a series of articles detailing the grand jury investigation that ultimately led to Mayor Adams’s indictment on September 26, 2024.”