With Mayor Eric Adams facing federal criminal charges and eight recent high-profile resignations in the mayor’s administration, City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams said that turmoil has not impacted the Council’s work with city commissioners and deputy mayors.
“Those communications, those relationships, continue, regardless of the resignations that have happened during the past week or so,” Speaker Adams said Thursday. “I can honestly say and thankfully say that we really have not seen, on the Council side, any negative imbalance because of what’s going on with the administration.”
What You Need To Know
- With several ongoing corruption investigations into Mayor Adams and his inner circle, Council Speaker Adrienne Adams stressed the mayor has a right to due process
- On Thursday, Speaker Adams discussed whether the current investigations affected the Council’s ability to work with city commissioners and deputy mayors
- Speaker Adams said communications with high levels of the mayor's administration have continued regardless of recent resignations
When asked about recent polling, which found a majority of New Yorkers believe the mayor should resign, Speaker Adams said, “as far as the mayor’s resignation, we still maintain his right to due process.”
During a media availability Thursday, Speaker Adams was also pressed on whether the Council would take action if the scandal inside City Hall begins to affect how the city functions.
“As far as any instability in the future, that’s good of a hypothetical that we really don’t want to cross into the hypothetical space,” Speaker Adams said. “What I will say is that there are steps that are available in the charter. There are steps also that are available right now and reside with the governor.”