Inside Eric Adams' 'clumsy' attempt to hinder foreign bribery probe
New York City Mayor Eric Adams had insisted that he was cooperating with the FBI. But the 57-page indictment unsealed Thursday tells a different story.
As federal investigations swirled around Eric Adams over the past year, the New York City mayor stuck to a familiar script.
“As a former member of law enforcement, I expect all members of my staff to follow the law and fully cooperate with any sort of investigation — and I will continue to do exactly that,” he said on Nov. 9, 2023.
Three days later, Adams sounded a similar refrain: “I have not been accused of wrongdoing, and I will continue to cooperate with investigators.”
And this past August, as the drumbeat of investigations grew louder, the mayor said: “We’re not going to interfere with the process. We’re going to cooperate with the process.”
But the federal indictment unsealed Thursday tells a different story. Adams and his staffers didn’t fully cooperate with federal investigators — they conspired to hamper the foreign bribery and corruption probe in ways that ranged from clumsy to clownish, the indictment says.
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