This is the second Federal investiagtion running against NY Mayor Eric Adams…..
Federal agents on Wednesday zeroed in on the highest ranks of the administration of Mayor Eric Adams, searching a home and seizing the phones of numerous officials as part of investigations unrelated to the continuing corruption inquiry into the mayor, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Among the officials the federal investigators sought information from were the city’s police commissioner, the first deputy mayor, the schools chancellor, the deputy mayor for public safety and a senior adviser to the mayor who is one of his closest confidants, the people said.
The agents also searched the home of a consultant who is the brother of both the schools chancellor and one of the deputy mayors, the people said.
The nature of the investigations is unclear, but it appears that one is focused on the senior City Hall officials and the other touches on the police commissioner, the people said….
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Several of the officials had their phones seized or records of their communications subpoenaed.
None has been accused of any crime.
Several of the people with knowledge of the matter said the searches were unrelated to the federal corruption inquiry focused on the mayor and his campaign fund-raising, but appeared to further entangle the Adams administration in a morass of criminal inquiries….