Adams was indicted last fall for allegedly accepting tens of thousands of dollars from Turkey to pay for luxury travel from foreign officials looking to gain influence with the mayor. He allegedly fast-tracked the Turkish consulate in New York.

The filing found that Adams’s longtime girlfriend Tracey Collins, who worked in Adams’s Department of Education, allegedly helped arrange admission for the child of the Turkish Consul General into a highly sought-after public Manhattan middle school.

A judge approved a warrant to search Collins’s Fort Lee, New Jersey, condominium home. Prosecutors were looking to gain access to at least five iPhones in connection with Collins’s alleged involvement in getting the child access to the school. Collins was not charged with a crime. 

After a September 2024 federal raid, the court filings also found Adams’s alleged efforts to block federal investigators from accessing his personal cellphone.

The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump dismissed the case in what many have speculated was a “quid pro quo” for Adams’s cooperation in Trump’s immigration policy efforts. Several prosecutors assigned to Adams’s case resigned as the DOJ pushed them to drop the case.

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U.S. District Judge Dale E. Ho ordered the records to be revealed after a request from the New York Times and, later, the New York Post.

Adams has maintained that he did nothing wrong.