Actually the DOJ dropped the charges after determining that they were politically motivated because Dementia Joe's handlers were trying to keep Adams adherent to their leftist political narrative. No pardon involved.
When I read that Biden had actually said that I couldn't believe that even OUR politically corrupt news media outlets totally let him get away with that; and then they wonder why nobody sane and informed trusts them anymore.
Lol when he got prosecuted the right wing media machine was like "another corrupt Democrat in a Democrat city" , but now that he got pardoned after kissing up to the megalomaniac in chief he is just another innocent angel.