New York City Mayor Eric Adams delivered a defiant message Wednesday night after news broke that he has been charged in a federal corruption investigation.
“My fellow New Yorkers, it is now my belief that the federal government intends to charge me with crimes,” Adams said in a one-minute video.
“If so, these charges will be entirely false, based on lies,” he claimed. “But they would not be surprising. I always knew that if I stood my ground for all of you, that I would be a target, and a target I became.”
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BREAKING: Full statement from New York City Mayor Eric Adams after being indicted by a federal grand jury. pic.twitter.com/t9U5IhfRYN
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The indictment remains under seal, the New York Times reported, but the investigation into Adams initially centered around allegations that the Democrat accepted illegal foreign campaign…
