There are currently four corruption investigations into the mayor. She managed three of them.
Mayor Eric Adams’s counsel and chief legal adviser, Lisa Zornberg, abruptly resigned — a major departure from the administration announced late Saturday night as the mayor and his inner circle face an onslaught of federal investigations.
Ms. Zornberg, a former senior Manhattan federal prosecutor in the office that is currently conducting three separate corruption investigations into the mayor and some of his senior aides, has been a fierce defender of Mr. Adams over the past 10 months. She encouraged New Yorkers not to rush to judgment after the first investigation — into the mayor’s campaign fund-raising — came to light.
“It has been a great honor to serve the city,” she wrote in a brief letter to the mayor on Saturday. “I am tendering my resignation, effective today, as I have concluded that I can no longer effectively serve in my position. I wish you nothing but the best.”
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The U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn is conducting the fourth.
i mean, when the feds yoink the phone of your chief of police, something has gone wildly off program. if your in-house counsel quits, effective immediately, a few days later... the car has not only blasted through the guardrail and gone off the cliff, it has exploded in mid air.
Are there more specific rumors as to the investigations out there that the times isn't printing? I feel like I just finished an episode and have to contend with the post-episode thread for a week.