People are deserting his admin….
Democrats in the City want no part of him ….
The chorus of “Resign’ sings LOUDER every day….
Will the New York Governor remove him from office?
Will the judge let him off the hook?
Could the NYC DA go after him?
Four top New York City officials are resigning after the Justice Department moved to dismiss Mayor Eric Adams’s corruption case in apparent exchange for his help with President Trump’s deportation agenda, according to three people with knowledge of their plans and an email sent by one of the aides on Monday.
The four officials — Maria Torres-Springer, the first deputy mayor, and Meera Joshi, Anne Williams-Isom and Chauncey Parker, all also deputy mayors — oversee much of New York City government, and their departure in the coming days is poised to blow a devastating hole in the already wounded administration of Mayor Eric Adams.
Mr. Adams, a Democrat, is forcefully resisting growing calls to resign. Gov. Kathy Hochul is also under increasing pressure to remove him from office.
The four officials who are leaving office are all respected government veterans. Ms. Torres-Springer was elevated to the second most powerful job at City Hall in October in an effort to stabilize city government and restore confidence in the Adams administration following the mayor’s federal indictment in September on five counts, including bribery and fraud….
…
The departing deputy mayors met with Mr. Adams on Friday and told him that he had not done his job as a leader, according to a city official briefed on the matter. The meeting was first reported by Politico.
Increasingly, the deputy mayors felt that they were not merely working for an indicted mayor, but for someone whose personal interests were outweighing the interests of New Yorkers, according to another person briefed on the matter. They found this untenable, the person said…
…
The episode “raises serious questions involving both the potential quid pro quo and prosecutorial weaponization of our justice system,” said the New York City Bar Association, in a statement issued Monday….
Note….
Ex-New York State Govwernor Andrew Cuomo waits in the wings to get by into Public Office….
Oh?
The ICE boss can forget about getting access to the NYC Jails it would appear….
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.