They were the subject of research, some retired, retiring or suffering from retirement. Some have even been celebrated, especially the last face, in the lower right of the front page – by none other than the Mayor of New York, Eric Adams. The others are members or subcontractors of their village, who has New York magazine asks in his October 7 issue how corrupt she is.
Arriving in the head of the city almost three years ago, Eric Adams charged in a federal investigation into the financing of his 2021 election campaign. And to give favors in return, including lobbying for a new building to be built to allow the Turkish consulate to open.
“The city of Eric Adams has been confronted since his inception with reported acts of corruption. We just have more details now. Donations via screen getter, nightclub racing system, nepotism in hiring…”, lists among other things of the magazine, which judges that the former police officer was held by “ethnic and consumer culture” from the New York Police Department.
“I’m not going to quit”
According to his supporters, the facts that the mayor is accused of making up peccadilloes that do not justify such a disturbance, appearing in New York every two months. “I’m not going to quit,” promised Eric Adams in a church in the Bronx the Sunday after the revolution. “I will reign.”
Several of those close to him, however, threw in the towel, including the city’s health commissioner and chancellor of education, as well as New York’s police chief, Edward Caban, early in the September. This October 8, The New York Times reports that the first deputy mayor, Sheena Wright, also resigned, growing “The seventh high-ranking official to leave the city in the last few weeks”.
2024-10-08 15:40:54
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