Eric Adams indicted
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@jon-nyc said in Eric Adams indicted:
@LuFins-Dad said in Eric Adams indicted:
Is it because he’s black? I bet it’s because he’s black…
Nope. He’s not playing the race card, he’s playing the Trump card:
“I always knew that if I stood my ground for New Yorkers that I would be a target — and a target I became,”
Stood his ground over what? Migrant policy? I mean, that’s the only area that he stepped away from Dem policy. That and defund the police, but the party itself has reversed course.
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New York Mayor Eric Adams was charged with bribery, wire fraud, and seeking illegal campaign donations in an indictment unsealed Thursday — a lengthy list of accusations that grew out of what prosecutors called “corrupt relationships" with rich foreigners.
Sign up for Fact Checker, our weekly review of what's true, false or in-between in politics.For nearly a decade, the indictment charged, Adams “sought and accepted improper valuable benefits, such as luxury international travel, including from wealthy foreign businesspeople and at least one Turkish govermnent official seeking to gain influence over him.”
The mayor’s official residence, Gracie Mansion, was searched and his devices seized early Thursday, the person said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe a sensitive process. -
“Little by little I am learning the art of being quite content by doing very little slowly” ~ Lionel Hardcastle
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The cop thing is overplayed. He hasn’t been a cop in over 20 years.
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Overplayed? Don’t think so.
Four of my friends are retired cops. Two were Chief Inspectors, one a Staff Sargeant the other a constable. Each one of them say “once a cop, always a cop”.
Adam’s would have known very well that what he was doing was criminal. Doesn’t say much for his character now and even less for what he was like 20 years ago when he was wearing a badge. A crooked cop.
“Little by little I am learning the art of being quite content by doing very little slowly” ~ Lionel Hardcastle
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@Renauda said in Eric Adams indicted:
Overplayed? Don’t think so.
Four of my friends are retired cops. Two were Chief Inspectors, one a Staff Sargeant the other a constable. Each one of them say “once a cop, always a cop”.
Adam’s would have known very well that what he was doing was criminal. Doesn’t say much for his character now and even less for what he was like 20 years ago when he was wearing a badge. A crooked cop.
The guy ran for Congress as early as 1994. He might have been employed by the police force, but he was never a cop. It was always a step in his political career.
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"My pronouns are FA/FO." - Mik, 2024
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@Mik said in Eric Adams indicted:
It must be egregious for them to go after their own. I wonder who he pissed off.
You must have listened to Buck Sexton talking about the indictment. He was going through it on the air today and said while Adams had taken some improprieties, nothing was so egregious as to warrant this type of indictment, in his opinion.
He was comparing this to Hunter's stuff, where Hunter was a made man in the Dem party and not charged with anything for far more serious crimes (until they absolutely HAD to charge him with something). Sexton was wondering aloud who Adams had made mad within the party?
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Last November, New York Mayor Eric Adams told FBI agents he’d made an innocent mistake by changing – and then forgetting – the passcode to his mobile phone, making it more difficult for investigators to probe its contents.
A five-count federal indictment unsealed in Manhattan on Thursday says it was more than just a slip of the mind.
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Last Nov. 2, the former police captain was in Washington for a meeting at the White House when he learned the FBI had visited the home of his top fundraiser, Brianna Suggs. Suggs phoned Adams five times before answering the door, prosecutors say.
The mayor canceled the White House meeting and dashed back to New York.
During an interview with the FBI, an Adams staffer excused herself and, while in the bathroom, allegedly deleted from her phone encrypted messaging apps she’d used to communicate with Adams, a Turkish businessman, and others, the indictment said.
Four days later, the FBI came armed with a search warrant for Adams’ own phones – but the mayor was only carrying his two official devices. His personal phone – the one he used to discuss campaign finance and, allegedly, official favors for the Turkish government – was at home.
An absent-minded (now indicted) mayor
On November 5, Adams surrendered that mobile phone – but there was a hitch.
“When Adams produced his personal cellphone the next day in response to a subpoena, it was 'locked,' such that the device required a password to open,” the indictment said. “Adams claimed that after he learned about the investigation into his conduct, he changed the password" that same day "and increased the complexity of his password from four digits to six.”
The mayor said he’d changed the password to prevent members of his staff from accidentally deleting anything.
“But, Adams further claimed, he had forgotten the password he had just set, and thus was unable to provide the FBI with a password that would unlock the phone,” the indictment says.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/opinion/eric-adams-nyc-mayor.html
interesting list of mayors, i rememeber all of them back to John Lindsay. I even visited Gracie mansion in 1970 when Lindsay hosted a party for the championship Knicks and i ran around like the kid i was getting autographs from Willis Reed and Walt Frazier.
but interesting that the only one who gets a positive plug is Fiorello La Guardia..who not only has a NY airport named after him but also a main road in Tel Aviv!
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It's alleged that he paid $50 for overseas business-class travel to a Turkish airline which is owned by...the Turkish government.
He "intervened" in getting a fire department inspector to ignore code violations in a skyscraper. He told said inspector that he would lose his job. The inspector ignored the violations in the building which was owned by...a Turkish business.
Then, there's straw donors...
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in Eric Adams indicted:
..the Turkish government.
@George-K said in Eric Adams indicted:
...a Turkish business.
I wonder what the "long game" is for Turkey?
