New York Mayor Eric Adams is expected to face federal charges by prosecutors out of the Southern District of New York. In a video statement released Wednesday night, Adams said, “If I am charged, I know I am innocent. I will request an immediate trial so that New Yorkers can hear the truth.”
Charges caps series of resignations and searches of Adams' inner circle
The Adams administration is already reeling from a series of high-level resignations amid at least four federal probes.
Federal investigators this month searched homes and seized phones belonging to multiple top officials close to Adams. Police Commissioner Edward Caban, who was among those whose phone was seized, resigned on Sept. 12.
Authorities also seized the phone of Caban’s twin brother, James Caban, a former police officer who owns a nightclub security business. Federal investigators are looking into whether bars and clubs in midtown Manhattan and Queens paid James Caban to act as a police liaison and whether those clubs were then afforded special treatment by local precincts, according to sources familiar with the matter.