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‘Quid Pro Quo’: The Phrase That Could Have Major Ramifications for Adams [1]

['Hurubie Meko', 'Michael Rothfeld', 'More About Hurubie Meko', 'More About Michael Rothfeld']

Date: 2025-02-19

At the center of the uproar surrounding the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss criminal charges against Mayor Eric Adams is a single Latin phrase: quid pro quo.

The expression — this for that, in English — means a favor, something granted in exchange for something in return. The judge considering the motion may scrutinize whether there had been an improper exchange that undermined the integrity of the dismissal motion.

Last week, the acting deputy attorney general, Emil Bove III, asked federal prosecutors in Manhattan to request that the judge throw out the corruption case, saying it would hurt the mayor’s ability to assist the Trump administration’s mass deportation program.

Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, Danielle R. Sassoon, resigned in response. In a letter to the attorney general, she said that at a meeting in Washington with Mr. Bove and prosecutors, Mr. Adams’s lawyers “repeatedly urged what amounted to a quid pro quo.”

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/nyregion/eric-adams-quid-pro-quo.html

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