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Even with his federal criminal case dismissed over six months ago, Mayor Eric Adams has seen his legal bills continue to climb — leaving a trust he set up under city rules to pay those bills with over $4.5 million in unpaid expenses, according to the latest filings.

Adams set up a trust that in most cases can accept donations of up to $5,000 per person shortly after the feds seized his electronic devices as part of their probe into alleged corruption in late 2023. Those limits apply to Adams while he’s mayor, where the rules of the trust are governed by

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