Eric Adams Charges: Read the Charges Facing the Mayor of New York City

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This is a historic and notable case title because it involves the first mayor in modern New York City history to have criminal charges filed against him while in office – just three years after Eric Adams was elected mayor.

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An indictment is often written like a story, with federal prosecutors describing the main character, in this case Eric Adams, and beginning with a description of the scene before describing the details of a criminal conspiracy in which he was involved.

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Federal prosecutors accuse Adams and his campaign team of illegally taking advantage of New York City’s generous public grant program by using so-called phantom donors to inflate the amount he was entitled to. However, the figure they use here – $10,000,000 – is the total amount of grants he received, not the amount he may have received illegally.

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Mr. Adams’s love of travel is well known, and he has often spoken about all the international destinations he has visited – starting with his time as a senator. Reporters have often asked how those trips were financed, and now prosecutors say some of them were given to him as bribes, along with free meals and hotel rooms.