Perhaps Big Apple denizens need to prepare a Plan C.
Last week, the Department of Justice indicted New York City mayor Eric Adams on several counts of corruption, alleging that Adams took straw-donor money that originated overseas for favors in his administration. Adams insists that he will not resign his office and that he will instead keep working while he refutes the charges. Governor Kathy Hochul and the city council have options to remove Adams unwillingly, although they are messy and fraught with political peril.
If Adams leaves office or gets ejected from it, the mayoral mantle will pass temporarily to NYC ‘public advocate’ Jumaane Williams. However, it turns out that Williams also got big political donations from one of the principals in the DoJ indictment of Adams, as the Wall Street Journal reported this morning:
New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, the…
