This article is adapted from our Feb. 13 edition of RANKED CHOICES, THE CITY’s weekly election newsletter. Click here to sign up. Dear New Yorkers, President Trump’s Justice Department on Monday sent a memo to federal prosecutors in New York City directing them to drop the corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams.  Although the Southern District […]

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Mayor Eric Adams emerged from his 90-minute meeting with U.S. “Border Czar” Tom Homan pledging to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement to operate on Rikers Island, as it had until a decade ago when a “sanctuary city” law forbade cooperation.  In a statement Adams’ office sent out hours after their meeting, Adams said the two […]

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Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon resigned Thursday after refusing to obey an order by President Trump’s Justice Department to dismiss the pending indictment charging Mayor Eric Adams with bribery and participating in a scheme to obtain illegal campaign donations. In her letter to Attorney General Pamela Bondi a day before, Sassoon argued that the […]

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A taxpayer-funded program to house incarcerated people released from Rikers in hotels during the COVID-19 pandemic became an elaborate fraud conspiracy in which the founder and former CEO of Exodus Transitional Community, Julio Medina, pocketed millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks, Brooklyn federal prosecutors charged Thursday. Medina, Christopher Dantzler, the owner of an unlicensed […]

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A deputy commissioner and longtime associate of Mayor Eric Adams forced a real estate brokerage the city relies on to help secure leases to hire a friend he identified as “my broker,” new court papers allege. Jesse Hamilton, deputy commissioner for real estate services at the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS), told Cushman & […]

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