Mayor Adams stated Monday that the feds supposed to “humiliate” him with a plan to hold out a search warrant on him on the New York Metropolis Marathon end line.
Federal brokers thought-about intercepting the mayor on the end line of the marathon in 2023, a trove of paperwork launched Friday as a part of Adams’ now-dismissed federal corruption case revealed. Ultimately, brokers approached him close to Washington Sq. Park the subsequent day, seizing 4 of his gadgets.
“The entire globe is watching the end of the marathon, where I’m holding the tape, and they were going to come and wanted to humiliate me. That’s personal. That’s not professional, that’s personal.”
The paperwork launched Friday confirmed the probe into the mayor was broader than beforehand recognized. The investigation into the mayor started in August 2021 and continued till simply earlier than President Trump’s Division of Justice put the kibosh on it on Feb. 10, in response to the filings.
Warrants on the mayor’s associates had been carried out simply days earlier than the Justice Division shut it down, and the feds executed a warrant on Adams’ iCloud account after it was signed off on by Manhattan Federal Justice of the Peace Decide Stewart Aaron in December 2022 — practically a yr earlier than the probe burst into public view.
Adams has stated he did nothing fallacious. The launched paperwork “show that federal authorities made false, reckless accusations with absolutely no evidence in a relentless, shameless assault on the mayor,” Todd Shapiro, a spokesman for the mayor’s reelection marketing campaign, stated in a press release Friday.
Finding and accessing Adams’ seven telephones turned a difficulty through the probe, the paperwork present. An agent accused the mayor of mendacity after he claimed to not bear in mind his private telephone’s passcode and stated he had left it at Metropolis Corridor, even because the telephone seemed to be touring with him, the launched paperwork present.
In a September 2024 request to look Gracie Mansion with a cell website simulator and an electronics-sniffing canine, investigators famous that the mayor “regularly spends the overnight hours of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday” on the Higher East Aspect residence.
The paperwork additionally detailed raids carried out at a Fort Lee, N.J. house the mayor shares together with his longtime girlfriend, Tracey Collins, and Gracie Mansion, the mayor’s official residence.
Initially Printed: Could 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM EDT
