Federal agents investigating New York City Mayor Eric Adams were still seizing phones and applying for search warrants days before Justice Department leaders ordered prosecutors to drop the corruption case.

New details are coming to light in Mayor Eric Adams’ now-dismissed federal corruption case, after the court unsealed a trove of documents Friday. For the first time, the public can see the search warrants, affidavits and various other records tied to the case. The New York Times and the New York Post asked a federal judge to publish the materials.

Prosecutors believed Adams was lying about the location of his personal cell phone during a seizure, the documents show. The mayor's defense counsel indicated that the unsealed papers were a record of a case that "should never have been brought.