New York City Mayor Eric Adams gives a thumb’s up as he leaves a press conference after he was subpoenaed by the federal grand jury at New York City Hall on August 16, 2024, in New York. | Source: YUKI IWAMURA / Getty
The federal investigation into NYC Mayor Eric Adams‘ 2021 campaign continues to be a thorn in his side.
The New York Times reported that Mayor Adams was subpoenaed as part of the ongoing federal investigation into corruption and unlawful campaign donations.
The feds are investigating whether Adams and his campaign were in cahoots with the Turkish government, allowing him to receive unlawful campaign donations and free flight upgrades from Turkish Airlines.
The Times also reported that the feds are investigating whether Mayor Adams pushed the fire department into giving the green light on a new skyscraper consulate for Turkey, raising safety concerns.
Fabien Levy, a spokesperson for Adams, spoke to CNN on the matter, saying that the NY Mayor expects everyone to cooperate and “swiftly bring this investigation to a close.”
Levy continued, “As a former member of law enforcement, the mayor has been clear over the last nine months that he will cooperate with any investigation underway. Nothing has changed.”
Welp.
This latest news comes after the feds seized two of Adams’s phones, and the homes of two of his raids were the subject of raids.
We shall see if this investigation has serious consequences for the NYC Mayor.
Adams, who spent 22 years as a rank-and-file member of the infamous New York Police Department, has been scrutinized his entire political career.
Aside from being subpoenaed by federal law enforcement, His Honor came under fire last summer for a viral confrontation with a constituent voicing complaints about the city’s continued rent increases.
In response to the persistent line of questioning from the constituent — a white woman — Adams compared her to a plantation owner in a metaphor that compared himself to a slave.
“I’m the mayor of this city and treat me with the respect that would deserve to be treated,” Adams is shown on video telling the unidentified woman at a town hall meeting. “I’m speaking to you as an adult. Don’t stand in front like you treated someone that’s on the plantation that you own.”
.@NYCMayor went off on a woman during his town hall tonight: “I’m the mayor of this city and treat me with the respect that would deserve to be treated. I’m speaking to you as an adult. Don’t stand in front like you treated someone that’s on the plantation that you own.” pic.twitter.com/Qwn8TgYFD1
— Myles Miller (@MylesMill) June 29, 2023
Adams also has a history of throwing shade at the Black Lives Matter movement and even described last year’s infamous subway chokehold vigilante killing of a Black man by a white Marine in sympathetic terms for someone who took the law into his own hands and committed homicide, as determined by the local medical examiner’s office.
That prompted the family of Jordan Neely — who died after being accosted by Daniel Penny and placed into a sprawling chokehold for at least 15 straight minutes on an F-line train — to call out Adams’ apparent indifference to the death of an unarmed and unhoused Black man.
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