New York City mayor Eric Adams has become the first of the city's 110 mayors to be criminally charged while in office, after being hit with a range of charges that have prompted calls for his resignation. Adams was charged on Thursday (local time) with wire fraud, soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations and bribery conspiracy. The grand jury indictment follows a sweeping investigation into the mayor's conduct and whether he conspired with the Turkish government to receive illegal contributions in return for favourable treatment.
Scandal has swirled around Adams for months, with several high-ranking allies resigning as others were indicted or raided by federal agents. The drama escalated with a pre-dawn raid of his official residence. Who is Eric Adams? Born in Brooklyn in 1960, Eric Adams is a former New York City police captain who served 22 years on the force.
He retired in 2006, winning election to the New York State Senate that year. In 2013, Adams was elected Brooklyn borough president, providing a springboard for his mayoral ambitions, and in 2022 he won New York City's highest office with a centrist, tough-on-crime platform. 'The '90s called': New York mocked for celebrating decades-old bin collection technology Early in his tenure, he brought back a disbanded special crimes unit.
Since then, a monitor found illegal police stops had risen under Adams' leadership, and rivals have criticised his strategies as overly aggressive. As New York continues to struggle wit.
