Eric Adams indicted

[George K]

Dude...

[Horace]

That's a shame.

[LuFins Dad]

Is it because he’s black? I bet it’s because he’s black…

[Doctor Phibes]

Lawfare!

[jon-nyc]

@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,”

[George K]

One report claims it's about Turkish funds and his campaign finances.

[Axtremus]

Lock him up?

[George K]

@Axtremus said in Eric Adams indicted:

Lock him up?

He might get lucky and have Juan Merchan as a judge.

[LuFins Dad]

@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.

[George K]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/09/26/eric-adams-indicted-nyc-mayor/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert

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.
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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.

[Renauda]

Adam’s sounds like a crook to me.

[George K]

@Renauda said in Eric Adams indicted:

Adam’s sounds like a crook to me.

Impossible!

He was a cop!

[Renauda]

And apparently a crooked cop at that!

[Horace]

I think some politicians advance into the position with the assumption that grift and abuse of power is part of the job, and an accepted perk. They may not take seriously any chance of being caught or punished.

[LuFins Dad]

The cop thing is overplayed. He hasn’t been a cop in over 20 years.

[Renauda]

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.

[LuFins Dad]

@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.

[Renauda]

All the more reason for him to have known better. Self entitlement is not an excuse.

[Mik]

It must be egregious for them to go after their own. I wonder who he pissed off.

[Jolly]

@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?