The move comes after acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove sent a letter earlier this week to prosecutors, instructing them to drop the case. Several of them have resigned from their posts after they were ordered to drop the case against Adams.

Bove signed off on the motion filed Friday evening, along with Edward Sullivan of the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section. The motion requests the dismissal of the case without prejudice, noting that the proceedings could affect Adams’s “ability to govern in New York City, which poses unacceptable threats to public safety, national security, and related federal immigration initiatives and policies.”

Adams was indicted on federal corruption charges last year. The Democratic mayor pleaded not guilty to five charges, including one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, federal program bribery, and to receive campaign contributions by foreign nationals, one count of wire fraud, two counts of solicitation of a contribution by a foreign national, and one count of bribery.

Judge Dale Ho of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York will decide whether or not to grant the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss the case.

Adams said in a Friday post on X that he “never offered — nor did anyone offer on my behalf — any trade of my authority as your mayor for an end to my case” and added that “we must put this difficult episode behind us so that trust can be restored, New York can move forward, and we can continue delivering for the people of this city.”