At least three of Mayor Eric Adams’ deputy mayors are now eyeing the door in the wake of the Justice Department’s controversial move to toss Hizzoner’s historic corruption case — which critics say makes him beholden to President Trump, sources told The Post Monday.
First Deputy Mayor Maria Torres Springer, Deputy Mayor for Operations Meera Joshi, and Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Anne Williams Isom had expressed a desire to resign from the Adams administration last week, according to sources with knowledge of the situation.
The three senior aides all joined Hizzoner for a Zoom meeting on Sunday to discuss their looming exits, according to NBC, which first reported the potential departures.
The meeting was set up to try and convince the trio to stay quiet about — or at least delay — their plans to quit as calls began to mount for Adams himself to resign amid the ongoing DOJ saga, the sources said.
The aides are said to have already informed Adams of their apparent plans to leave his administration — effective from next month — during an in-person meeting at Gracie Mansion on Friday.
A fourth deputy mayor, Chauncey Parker, who oversees public safety, was also on the Sunday call and expressed a desire to cut ties with City Hall, per NBC’s sources.
It wasn’t immediately clear if an embattled Adams was successful in convincing his bigwigs to remain on board.
The Post reached out to City Hall but didn’t hear back immediately.
Details of the meetings emerged after federal prosecutors formally moved to toss the historic corruption case against Adams late Friday.
The motion to dismiss the case without prejudice — meaning it could be revived later on — followed a wave of resignations in protest of the DOJ’s orders for the case to be killed.
The filing, which marked the first formal step to halting Hizzoner’s criminal prosecution, cited, in part, alleged politically motivated prosecution by former Manhattan US Attorney Damian Williams.
The three-page dismissal motion was signed by Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove and filed along with two other members of the DOJ’s DC office — just days after Bove issued the stunning directive to drop the case.
