Eric Adams (mayor of NYC) Is Indicted Following Federal Corruption Investigation

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/nyregion/eric-adams-indicted.html

free link https://archive.ph/bapsY

Eric L. Adams, a retired police captain who was elected as New York City’s 110th mayor nearly three years ago on a promise to rein in crime, has been indicted following a federal corruption investigation, people with knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday.

The indictment remained sealed on Wednesday night, and it was unclear what charge or charges Mr. Adams will face. But when they are made public, he will become the first New York City mayor to be criminally charged while in office.

The indictment promised to reverberate across the nation’s largest city and beyond, plunging Mr. Adams’s embattled administration further into chaos just months before he is set to face challengers in a hotly contested mayoral primary.

Representatives of Mr. Adams and his campaign said they had no immediate comment.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. You just knew it was coming...

They've been indicting everyone around him - they were nibbling at the edges waiting to take the big bite.

[msfiddlestix]

15. This is all news to me, wasn't on my radar, so I'm stunned, bewildered , want to know what sort of corruption charges?

[Solly Mack]

2. lolololololol

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. I'm saying

[Solly Mack]

7. I must confess to being petty.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. right there with you haha

[tulipsandroses]

3. Stick a pin in him. NY should have went with Maya Wiley

Hope she primaries him.

[Kittycatkat]

4. Good God, could he be caught up in the p-diddy net?

One year ago he gave a key to NYC to diddy.

Apparenty US Attorney Damian Williams, who brought up charges against diddy, will be giving a press conference tomorrow.

[tulipsandroses]

6. No. He's corrupt. They have been looking at him for corruption for some time

Nothing to do with Diddy.

[Kittycatkat]

10. Thanks

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. MSNBC is covering this story

Link to tweet

[Renew Deal]

11. If I'm reading correctly, the next in line is the Public Advocate, who is currently Jumaane Williams.

That will make much of the Democratic base happy

[ecstatic]

12. amazing how fast the feds move when a Democrat is involved!

Especially a black democrat. Sorry, just my opinion!

[kelly1mm]

14. You seem to be the only one here on DU with that take. Others seem absolutely giddy that a Democrat

mayor of the major city in the US and a POC at that is being indited. Makes one wonder .......

[leftstreet]

16. Maybe if he had once, ever, acted like a Democrat...

[ecstatic]

17. If he's guilty, he should be held accountable. I just wish there was equal justice under the law.

[DET]

13. I Kept Thinking at the Time

They gave up Maya Wiley for THIS guy?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

18. Reports coming out that he'll be charged with acting as an unregistered foreign agent sheeeesh