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The Brian Lehrer Show

Arrests & Investigations

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

WNYC's Jon Campbell reports on the arrest of a former aide to Gov. Hochul, plus updates the investigations of members of Mayor Adams' administration.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's the Brian Laird show on WNYc.

0:03.0

Welcome back everybody.

0:10.0

It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. Welcome back everybody. I'm Matt Katz, reporter in the WNYC

0:16.8

newsroom and I'm sitting in for Brian today. Last week was a big one for federal prosecutors in New York in addition to search warrants

0:26.0

served on several members of the Adams administration including the police

0:30.5

commissioner and the school's chancellor, which prompted Mayor Adams to compare himself to the biblical figure Job.

0:38.0

We have another extraordinary corruption scandal with international intrigue up in Albany with

0:43.7

Linda Sun a former deputy chief of staff to Governor Hockel

0:48.0

who's also made to Governor Cuomo arrested and charged with acting as an agent of the Chinese government

0:54.0

to find out more about her role in both

0:57.0

administrations, how she's alleged to have used

1:00.0

her government access to benefit China,

1:02.0

and for the latest on the investigations into people in the

1:05.2

Adams administration I'm joined by my colleague John Campbell who covers the

1:09.4

New York State Capitol for WNYC and Gothamist.

1:13.0

Hi John, how about last week?

1:14.6

My goodness.

1:16.7

It was certainly a doozy, as Molly Ball just said.

1:21.8

It was a doozy up here too.

1:23.4

So let me just start with what we've learned

1:27.2

about the City Hall investigation,

1:29.0

since that's been the most recent.

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