Posted on 09/26/2024 7:18:12 AM PDT by Libloather
Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted by a grand jury on charges connected to a federal probe that has shaken his administration, sources told The Post.
The historic indictment is expected to be unsealed Thursday by US Attorney Damian Williams, according to the sources
Adams will surrender to authorities early next week, sources said.
Mayor Eric Adams attended a gala Metropolitan Museum of Art with President Joe Biden in attendance — just hours before news broke of his impending indictment.
Adams was spotted at the reception just after 6 p.m. along with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby and chef and humanitarian Jose Andres.
News of the unsealed indictment emerged just at 9 p.m. Wednesday.
The mayor was not seen chatting with the prez.
A lawyer for Mayor Eric Adams ripped the FBI's early morning search of Gracie Mansion as a "spectacle" -- saying the feds came to take one of the mayor’s phones.
“Federal agents appeared this morning at Gracie Mansion in an effort to create a spectacle (again) and take Mayor Adams' phone (again),” the attorney, Alex Spiro, said in a statement.
“He has not been arrested and looks forward to his day in court. They send a dozen agents to pick up a phone when we would have happily turned it in.”
It comes after federal agents seized the mayor’s phones and iPad on the streets of Manhattan last November as he was leaving an event.
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And he gets to keep his $1,000 suits
Obviously neither of them knew what was really going on…
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