{"id":107361,"date":"2024-09-27T03:00:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107361"},"modified":"2024-09-27T03:00:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T20:00:46","slug":"eric-adams-indictment-live-updates-as-nyc-mayor-is-accused-of-taking-bribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107361","title":{"rendered":"Eric Adams indictment: Live updates as NYC mayor is accused of taking bribes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Adams\u2019 lawyer says the mayor wanted to turn himself in Thursday but is now hoping to appear in court Friday or Monday\n        <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Speaking to reporters, Alex Spiro suggested federal authorities waved off his immediate surrender. He also accused them of leaking word of Adams\u2019 indictment to the news media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve known for some time that they intended to bring a case against the mayor one way or another,\u201d Spiro said, standing with Adams outside the mayor\u2019s official residence.<\/p>\n<p>Spiro said that after having had a chance to read the indictment, \u201cyou could almost picture them trying to cobble this together and try to tell a story so that they could say, \u2018corruption, corruption\u2019 at a press conference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He criticized the indictment as a jumble of accusations and innuendo he said was \u201cmeant to mislead\u201d the public about Adams. He argued that the conduct described in the charges either wasn\u2019t illegal or didn\u2019t involve the mayor.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish consulate was asking for \u201ca courtesy,\u201d not payback, when it wanted Adams\u2019 help in skipping a fire inspection, Spiro said, adding: \u201cNew Yorkers do this all the time.\u201d Adams said he\u2019d see what he could do and, a few days later, ignored a follow up phone call from the consulate, Spiro asserted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no corruption. This is not a real case,\u201d Spiro said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/live\/eric-adams-new-york-city-mayor-indicted-updates\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adams\u2019 lawyer says the mayor wanted to turn himself in Thursday but is now hoping to appear in court Friday or Monday Speaking to reporters, Alex Spiro suggested federal authorities &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107361\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}