But his 33-month tenure as mayor has been marred by corruption. In July 2023, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Mr. Prague was accused of conspiring to make illegal donations to the mayoral campaign. He accused six people, including a retired police inspector who worked with Adams.
Two months later, Mr. Bragg accused the mayor’s former senior adviser and building commissioner Eric Ulrich of conspiracy and bribery. Mr. Bragg accused Mr Ulrich of using his city funding position to “line his own pockets”.
Recently, federal agents seized the phones of some of the top officials in city government, including the police commissioner, the schools chancellor, the first deputy mayor, the deputy mayor for public safety and a senior counsel who has indicted four people. This year for sexual harassment. Those searches and seizures Mr. The investigation involving Adams is related to three separate federal criminal investigations conducted in parallel. None of those officers were charged.
Although he became the first sitting mayor to be criminally charged, Mr. Not Adams. Jimmy Walker, a flamboyant, nightlife-loving mayor known as Beau James, held court in Jazz Age New York City. He resigned Corruption corruption and ran away to Europe.
Mayor William O’Dwyer, Mr. The only modern mayor besides Adams to serve as a police officer, he stepped down in his second term amid what his obituary described as “the biggest police scandal in city history.”
Most recently, Bill de Blasio, Mr. Federal prosecutors investigated Adams’ predecessor, his contacts with donors, but no charges were brought. Rudolph W. Giuliani was indicted this year more than two decades after he was mayor, in a Georgia case focused on efforts to alter the results of the 2020 presidential election.
