The unraveling of Eric Adams' administration
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🗓️ 19 September 2024
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There are federal investigations, top level resignations, and scandals reaching back into his 2021 mayoral campaign. So, what's going on?
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| 0:00.0 | America's biggest city is known for its larger-than-life leaders. |
| 0:05.0 | Theorello La Gordia spoke to the whole nation with his radio program Talk to the People. |
| 0:11.0 | It's Christmas again. |
| 0:13.0 | And now is the time for all of us to resolve to live the spirit of Christmas. |
| 0:22.0 | Ed Koch stood six foot two and talked an even bigger game. |
| 0:26.0 | I believe that I created the foundation. |
| 0:29.0 | I changed the city of New York. |
| 0:31.0 | And before Rudy Giuliani joined Donald Trump's orbit, |
| 0:34.8 | he was known for his controversial civil cleanup policies. |
| 0:38.1 | That city that used to be the rotting apple |
| 0:39.8 | that 60, 70, 80% of the people wanted to come to. |
| 0:44.2 | That city now is a very strong, |
| 0:46.4 | and it's a confident city. |
| 0:47.8 | But just as New York City's mayors |
| 0:49.9 | have been larger than life, so to have their political scandals. |
| 0:54.4 | District Attorney Cyrus Vance now has in his hands a scathing report on Mayor DeBlazio's efforts |
| 1:00.0 | to influence the 2014 Senate races. |
| 1:02.6 | A total of nine officials and businessmen |
| 1:05.4 | have been indicted on charges ranging from bribery to stock from. |
| 1:08.6 | Police Commissioner in New York City, Bernard Karak, |
| 1:11.4 | whose indictment is expected to be unsealed today on charges of corruption. |
| 1:16.2 | Just as in those previous cases, the city's current mayor, Eric Adams, has not been charged |
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