Politics
The Charges Against Mayor Adams
In a 57-page indictment, federal prosecutors outlined a pattern of corruption that they said began years before Mr. Adams became mayor and continued after he took office.
Good morning. It’s Friday. We’ll get details on the bribery and fraud charges that Mayor Eric Adams is facing.
Credit…Karsten Moran for The New York Times
On Thursday — Mayor Eric Adams’s 1,000th day in office — federal prosecutors made public a criminal indictment that accuses him of bribery and fraud beginning long before he became mayor.
The charges capped 10 months of apprehension and anxiety that had swirled around the mayor ever since the day the F.B.I. told his security detail to step aside, climbed into his S.U.V. with him as he was leaving an event and seized his phones and iPad.
Now, in 57 pages, prosecutors outlined what they called a scheme to solicit illegal foreign campaign donations. The indictment said that Adams had accepted more than $100,000 in graft and had used his power to help Turkey.
The mayor defiantly insisted that he was innocent.
Adams is set to appear before a federal magistrate judge on Friday, though a lawyer for the mayor has asked the judge to move the hearing to early next week. When his arraignment takes place, Adams will enter a plea, presumably of not guilty.
