Feds: NYC Mayor Eric Adams May Face More Charges

New York City’s ABC affiliate reports:

Additional charges against Mayor Eric Adams are “possible” and additional defendants are “likely” to be added, a prosecutor said Wednesday during a court hearing in a Lower Manhattan courtroom. “We’re moving quickly,” prosecutor Hagens Scotten said. “We think that is quite likely.”

Adams has pleaded not guilty to charges that accused him of engaging in a long running conspiracy to solicit and accept illegal foreign contributions. The investigation into Adams began in the summer of 2021 “before the defendant had even become mayor,” Scotten said, revealing a timeframe not previously known.

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