Important Takeaways:
- New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been hit with five federal charges – including wire fraud, bribery and solicitation of a contribution by a foreign national – according to a sprawling 57-page federal indictment unsealed Thursday.
- Prosecutors from the Southern District of New York accuse Adams of seeking and accepting luxury international travel from a wealthy businessman and at least one Turkish government official for nearly a decade.
- “As Adams’ prominence and power grew, his foreign-national benefactors sought to cash in on their corrupt relationships with him, particularly when, in 2021, it became clear that Adams would become New York City’s mayor,” the indictment says. “Adams agreed, providing favorable treatment in exchange for the illicit benefits he received.”
- The details of the criminal case come at a time of extraordinary turmoil for the Adams administration. In the past two weeks alone, the city’s police commissioner, top lawyer and schools chancellor have announced their resignations.
- The Adams administration has also been facing a public corruption investigation and another federal probe that resulted in a search of homes belonging to Adams’ former director of Asian affairs.
- In a videotaped statement he released late Wednesday, Adams remained defiant, saying any charges against him would be “entirely false, based on lies.”
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Important Takeaways:
- The commissioner of the biggest police department in the country resigned Thursday, days after having his phone seized by federal agents as part of one of multiple, ongoing criminal investigations into New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ administration.
- At a hastily arranged press conference, Adams said he accepted Caban’s decision to resign and appointed Tom Donlon, a retired FBI official who previously served as New York’s director of Homeland Security, as interim police commissioner.
- The development comes amid at least four ongoing federal investigations into the Adams administration — and have ensnared several of his top officials.
- Adams has denied any wrongdoing. At Thursday’s press conference, the mayor said he was “surprised as you to learn of these inquiries,” and added: “I take them extremely seriously.”
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Important Takeaways:
- Eric Adams under pressure to divulge details on ‘outside agitators’ at campus protests
- Adams, a Democrat and former city police officer, was asked by local reporters on Thursday morning to give a breakdown of the arrest numbers. He repeatedly declined to provide details.
- When pressed to provide further details, he said his office had “turned everything over to the school, and it is up to the school to determine if they’re going to release the names of students and non-students”.
- New York police department issued a press release saying that among those arrested at Columbia, “approximately 29% of individuals were not affiliated” with the school, while 60% of people arrested at the CCNY protests were not affiliated with the school
- NYPD commissioner said “These individuals are not university students, they are not affiliated with either the institutions or campuses in question, and they are working to escalate the situation.”
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Important Takeaways:
- New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday called for the federal government to declare a state of emergency to manage the “crisis” at the border, saying the influx of asylum seekers could end up costing the city billions of dollars in the coming years.
- Adams said more than 57,000 migrants are under the city’s care on an average night and nearly 100,000 asylum seekers have sought shelter there since last year.
- At a news conference Wednesday, Adams said a federal state of emergency would “allow federal funds to be allocated quickly to help address the urgent challenges we face.”
- Adams declared a state of emergency for New York City in October.
- An official from the Department of Homeland Security pointed to the “more than $140 million in federal funding to New York City, more than any other interior city.”
- In his remarks Wednesday, Adams said the city would not “abandon our brothers and sisters seeking the American dream.”
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Important Takeaways:
- NYC Mayor Eric Adams Quits on Migrants Camped on Sidewalk
- They’ve been sleeping outside a hotel in the biggest and richest city with virtually no help from government leaders. It’s a disgrace.
- In the past few days those who head uptown have suddenly encountered a scene that disgraces every level of government, from the mayor to the governor to the president
- Its immediate ability to cope with such an influx has maxed out and neither the feds nor the state are coming to the rescue even though the city pays both far more in taxes than it receives in services and benefits.
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