Most of the seats in the ornate wood-paneled courtroom of Manhattan Federal Judge Dale Ho Tuesday were filled with supporters of Mohamed Bahi, the former aide to Mayor Eric Adams who was about to be sentenced for arranging illegal straw donations for the mayor’s election campaigns.

Missing from the scene was Eric Adams, the man whose candidacy put Bahi in that courtroom awaiting his fate.

And Ho — the same judge who’d reluctantly dismissed Adams’ campaign finance fraud case at the request of the Trump Justice Department after Adams promised fealty to the administration — wasn’t about to let that go unnoticed.

“There’s a notable absence here of the person at the apex of the pyramid,” Ho remarked, making clear his belief that the guy at the top had managed to walk away while Bahi, a relat

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