NEW YORK (AP) — A former aide to outgoing New York Mayor Eric Adams was sentenced Tuesday to three years’ probation, including a year of home confinement, for soliciting illegal campaign contributions for Adams.

But as a federal judge announced the sentence for Mohamed Bahi, a liaison to the city’s Muslim communities, he also addressed the “elephant in the room” — that Adams’ own corruption charges had been erased through a remarkable intervention by the Trump administration.

“There’s a notable absence here of the person at the apex of the pyramid,” said the judge, Dale E. Ho, who also presided over Adams’ since-dismissed case. “It is hard to escape the impression that Mr. Bahi, as his counsel put it, is left here holding the bag.”

Bahi, 41, had pleaded guilty to helping solicit i

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