The mayor is facing criminal charges, his close associates are fleeing the administration and the very top ranks of the police department are in disarray.
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... Since Eric Adams became New York City's first sitting mayor to be hit with a federal felony indictment, his signature "swagger" is giving way to signs of weakness.A Marist poll released Friday found nearly 70% of New Yorkers want him to step down. His administration is quietly reversing course on a contentious road project, folding on a mobile phone ban in schools and bracing for a fight over a generational zoning change expected to bring significant new housing.
Long-term planning, key decision making and passing signature policies are all but impossible with a "politically radioactive" mayor, said John Kaehny, the executive director of Reinvent Albany, a government transparency group. ...
Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Phil Banks resigns, 3 others in Adams' administration to leave
abc7ny.com
... New York City's deputy mayor for public safety, Phil Banks III, resigned Monday in the latest fallout from the corruption scandal engulfing the administration of Mayor Eric Adams.
Banks III rose to NYPD chief of department before leaving in 2014. He was brought back by the mayor to serve as his deputy mayor.
"We spoke yesterday and we spoke again this morning and he stated he wants to move on to other things in his life," Adams told NY1. "I wish my good friend well." ...
A former aide to New York Mayor Eric Adams is charged with destroying evidence as top deputy quits
apnews.com
... A former New York City official was charged Tuesday with witness tampering and destroying evidence in a federal investigation that led to Mayor Eric Adams' bribery indictment. The arrest came amid yet more high-profile exits from Adams' administration.
Federal prosecutors allege that Mohamed Bahi, who resigned Monday as a community affairs liaison, told a businessman and campaign donors to lie to the FBI in June, and deleted the encrypted messaging app Signal from his cell phone as FBI agents arrived to search his home in July. Bahi had used the app to communicate with Adams, prosecutors said. ...
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