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| Unlike Republicans, the Democrats want to hold their allies accountable. The calls for Eric Adams to step down grow after the feds indicted him. |
Winners and losers of 2024.
The 110th mayor of New York City is served by the feds. He joins disgraced mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Wait....
Fox will find some way to blame President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota governor Tim Walz for the actions of this guy.
Republicans have no pony in this. They are backing a presidential candidate who is a convicted felon, a liable sexual predator, a federally indicted former official and the very definition of white privilege. A man who tried to violently overturn the results of an election. A man who continues to threaten others despite being a survivor of a mass shooting, an assassination attempt and another attempted assassination.
They need to sit their asses down.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Eric Adams, the AIPAC picked Democratic mayor of America's largest city is indicted by the Southern District of New York, the same federal court that indicted Sean "Puffy" Combs, Michael Cohen, Robert Sylvester Kelly and former president Donald J. Trump (later moved to Southern District of Florida).
Adams is the second African American to become mayor of New York City and first mayor in its history to be criminally charged while in office.
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams does not discriminate. He goes after Democrats, Republicans and celebrities. No one is above the law.
The New York Times was first to break this news.
He will unseal the indictment against Adams.
But when they are made public, he will become the first New York City mayor to be criminally charged while in office.
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The indictment promised to reverberate across the nation’s largest city and beyond, plunging Adams’ embattled administration further into chaos just months before he is set to face challengers in a hotly contested mayoral primary.
Representatives of Adams and his campaign said they had no immediate comment.
Brendan R. McGuire and Boyd M. Johnson III, partners at WilmerHale who represent the mayor, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Representatives of the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, the FBI and the city Department of Investigation declined to comment.
The indictment represented an extraordinary turnabout for Adams, 64, a former state senator and Brooklyn borough president who took office as the city was rebounding from the pandemic and confronting a massive influx of migrants from the southern border.
It grew out of an investigation by the FBI and federal prosecutors in Manhattan that began more than two years ago and was focused at least in part on his 2021 mayoral campaign.
The inquiry remained secret until late last year, when an FBI search of his chief fund-raiser’s home thrust it into public view. After searching the home of the fund-raiser, Brianna Suggs, last November, federal investigators left with two laptop computers, three iPhones and a manila folder labeled “Eric Adams.”
Suggs has not been accused of wrongdoing.
Days later, in a dramatic scene on a Greenwich Village street, FBI agents told the mayor’s security detail to step aside, climbed into his SUV with him and seized his electronic devices.
Until federal investigations closed in on him, Adams’ life had seemed a classic New York success story.
Raised by a working-class mother in Brooklyn and Queens, he overcame dyslexia and run-ins with the police, and then joined the Police Department himself. He worked initially as a transit officer, and sought to make changes from within. During a two-decade career there, he rose to the rank of captain and served as a vocal, and sometimes contentious, advocate for Black officers.
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Retiring to pursue a life in politics, Adams dreamed for years of becoming New York’s mayor, an ambition he realized by embracing diverse constituencies across the city, and an accomplishment he has said was divinely ordained.
As mayor, Adams vowed to return “swagger” to a city still emerging from the pandemic, and he surrounded himself in City Hall with friends and associates whose loyalty to him sometimes exceeded their policy expertise. Several had troubled pasts.
Although he will become the first sitting mayor to be criminally charged, Adams is hardly the first to face criminal investigation. Jimmy Walker, a flamboyant, nightlife-loving mayor known as Beau James, held court in Jazz Age New York City but resigned amid a corruption scandal and fled to Europe.
Mayor William O’Dwyer, the only modern mayor aside from Adams to have served as a police officer, resigned months into his second term amid what was described in his obituary as “the biggest police scandal in the city’s history.”
More recently, federal prosecutors investigated Bill de Blasio, Adams’ predecessor, over his interactions with donors, but brought no charges. And Rudy Giuliani was indicted this year, more than two decades after he was mayor, in a Georgia case focused on efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
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