Eric Adams indicted

[George K]

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

Mayor Eric L. Adams has been indicted on federal criminal charges, according to people with knowledge of the matter, and will be the first mayor in New York City history to be charged while in office.

The indictment is sealed, and it was unclear what charge or charges Mr. Adams will face or when he will surrender to the authorities. Federal prosecutors are expected to announce the details of the indictment on Thursday.

“I always knew that if I stood my ground for New Yorkers that I would be a target — and a target I became,” Mr. Adams, 64, said in a statement Wednesday night. “If I am charged, I am innocent and I will fight this with every ounce of my strength and spirit.”

The unprecedented indictment comes a little less than a year after federal agents searched the home of Mr. Adams’s chief fund-raiser and seized the mayor’s electronic devices as he left a public event in Manhattan.

The mayor and his aides have said he was cooperating with the authorities, and Mr. Adams has continued to insist that he has done nothing wrong.

Mr. Adams, a retired police captain, was elected in 2021 as New York’s 110th mayor and the second Black person to lead the nation’s largest city after a campaign built on a pledge to reduce crime, bring professionalism to City Hall and tap his personal brand of “swagger.”

But he staffed top positions with friends and loyalists, and his inner circle has been engulfed by federal investigations that have targeted the highest ranks of city government. Earlier this month, federal agents seized phones from numerous top city officials, including a top aide to Mr. Adams, the schools chancellor and the police commissioner. The commissioner, Edward A. Caban, and the schools chancellor, David C. Banks, later resigned.

[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.