New York mayor faces criminal indictment–reports
NEW YORK—New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Wednesday he expected to be charged with federal crimes and declared he was innocent, after the New York Times reported he had already been indicted following a long-running federal corruption investigation.
Adams, a Democrat who would become the first of the city’s 110 mayors to be criminally charged while in office, said in a video statement that if charges were filed they would be “entirely false, based on lies.”
He vowed to remain in office while fighting them.“If I’m charged, I know I’m innocent. I will request an immediate trial so New Yorkers can hear the truth,” Adams said. In the meantime the exact charges remained uncertain. It also remained unclear whether Adams would be arrested or voluntarily surrender. Other media later reported that a federal grand jury had indicted Adams, citing unnamed sources. —Reuters
