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In reply to the discussion: Top Eric Adams appointee did business with Trump and a Russian oligarch who was sanctioned by the U. [View all]Beastly Boy
(9,293 posts)By New York standards, this story is pretty lame. Just about any veteran real estate executive in NY has ties to "influential businesses and officials who have come under legal scrutiny", just like any corrections officer at Rikers has ties to convicted felons. It's an occupational hazard. If Adams were to appoint someone with no such ties, he would end up with an incompetent executive running a City Hall office.
I don't usually pay attention to click bait like this, so I can't recall who among the previous mayors was accused of having ties with whom, but I am pretty sure the media have been reporting something similar to this on a regular basis for decades. Because it beats publishing stories about two ducks mating at the Staten Island zoo.
Adams was elected mayor because he was an exemplary Brooklyn Borough President, and the other candidates weren't. It remains to be seen how well he will handle a mayor's job, but stories like this one will have no impact on his record.