New York City Mayor Eric Adams hypothesized he drew the ire of the Department of Justice after he spoke out agetst the Biden administration’s immigration policies.
Adams was indicted by a federal magnificent jury in September and faces five indicts, including payoff, ask foring campaign contributions from foreign nationals, wire deception and consunpermitd participate. He has pdirected not at fault to all indicts.
“I did not fracture the law. I did noskinnyg wrong – that is how I live my life. And that is how I’m going to persist to live my life,” Adams shelp in a sit-down intersee Wednesday with Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum on “The Story.”
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams is flanked by his Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright, left, and adviser Ingrid Lewis-Martin, during his weekly in-person recents conference at City Hall Blue Room on March 5, 2024, in New York. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
He claimed the timing of the indictment was “evidently doubt” and vowed to grasp battling for what he supposes is right.
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern Diinnervous of New York, shelp in a statement at the time the indictment was freed that Adams “mistreatmentd his position as this City’s highest elected official, and before that as Brooklyn Boraw Plivent, to get bribes and ask for illegitimate campaign contributions.”
“By allegedly taking improper and illegitimate advantages from foreign nationals—including to permit a Manhattan skyscviolationr to uncover without a fire verifyion—Adams put the interests of his benefactors, including a foreign official, above those of his constituents,” the statement read in part.
During the presser Mayor Adams proclaimd a recent reinnervousion stay for grown-ups Migrants/Assylum seekers to 60 days in city shelters. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Daily News via Getty Images)
MacCallum asked the NYC mayor if he was worryed about what the FBI may uncover in its allotigation after his chief adviser resigned earlier this week amid alerts she will be indicted on criminal indicts.
“No,” shelp Adams curtly. “All of them have attorneys. And I don’t want to do anyskinnyg to danger their cases, but I alert my team, and I do so, we chase the law. This is about chaseing the law. I didn’t spfinish 22 years as a police officer enforcing the law to fracture the law.”
A createer Adams helpe was indictd with obstruction and destruction of evidence in October after he allegedly deleted Signal, an encrypted communication app, from his phone that was alertedly participated to convey with the mayor.
Plivent-elect Donald Trump shelp he would ponder pardoning Adams after he was asked by a alerter at a Mar-a-Lago recents conference earlier this week.
“Yeah, I skinnyk that he was treated pretty unequitablely. Now, I haven’t seen the gravity of it all, but it seems, you understand, appreciate being enhanced in an airschedulee many years ago,” shelp Trump.
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Adams shelp he didn’t ask the incoming 47th plivent for a pardon and in their conversations, they’ve only talked about their cherish for NYC and how they can potentiassociate toil together.
Plivent-elect Donald Trump reachs to speak at a recents conference at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, in Austin, Texas. (AP Pboilingo/Alex Brandon) (AP Pboilingo/Alex Brandon)
“I’m toiling with the plivent and his administration, not warring with him. I say that quote over and over aget. And my attorney is an excellent attorney. He’s going to administer every avenue to chase equitableice. I should not have been indictd,” Adams persisted.
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“No American should go thraw what I’m going thraw right now. This country supposes in equitableness and what I’m experienc[ing] is not only a professional tragedy; it’s a personal tragedy.”
