In Brooklyn, “Democratic” Assemblywoman Jamie Williams endorsed Sliwa for Gov, and “Democratic” District Leader Frank Seddio endorsed Williams. Real Dems @JibreelJalloh and Stanley Scutt can beat both of them this June!
NEW: In clear terms, @NYCMayor tells us if he and @NYPDPC cannot reach agreement on dismantling the Strategic Response Group and other issues of dispute, he will overrule her. He said they’re in talks over how to reform SRG. W/ @danarubinstein
https://t.co/Hs57Lr2dzU
New York has inaugurated a brand-new mayor, but investigators and prosecutors will be processing the wreckage of Eric Adams’s scandal-plagued administration for years to come. The mountain of corruption seems to be far taller and stinkier than was generally known, and the ex-mayor has been busy adding new offal to the heap.
Just last week, Adams called reporters to Times Square, where he began hyping a digital asset called the NYC Token. It was part of what seems to be a grifty, multimillion-dollar memecoin hustle, known as a “rug pull,” in which investors are encouraged to buy a cryptocurrency asset by operators who quietly siphon off the invested money, leaving buyers with little or nothing.
The day after the NYC Token crashed, Adams’s longtime ally Tony Herbert, who held a high-ranking community outreach position, was indicted on fraud and bribery charges. That’s not all. On the same day, news broke that Adams’s former police commissioner, Thomas Donlon, filed a defamation suit against the ex-mayor. The defamation claim is connected to a larger lawsuit by Donlon alleging that the department under Adams was run as a criminal enterprise. A similar lawsuit by the former chief of detectives alleges that NYPD promotions could be purchased for $15,000 and sexual harassment was rampant at One Police Plaza.
And there’s more: The new Speaker of the City Council, Julie Menin, says the Council will be looking into possible malfeasance by the Adams administration. “We need to retrospectively take a look back at what happened the last couple years,” Menin told Errol Louis.
Read Louis on why we should expect more of the fiscal and legal shenanigans of the Adams era to come to light: https://t.co/x2X5OHz00o
Dem District Leader & Board of Elections Commissioner Seddio is making a mockery of our courts, dodging judges' orders for a year. No consequences so far, but we can vote him out next year!