Eric Adams is a former NYPD officer, former Brooklyn Borough President and the current Mayor of New York City. He has been a known quantity for decades. Without a doubt he has been a part of the graft and corruption that is the status quo within the New York political system. He has flunkies and nepotistic individuals embedded throughout the city government and the odds that he hasn’t been receiving kickbacks and bribes for decades are zero.
But low and behold! The Feds have discovered there are kickbacks and bribery going on in New York City and Eric Adams is involved! Amazing.
Well maybe not so amazing. All of this surfaced when Adams started complaining about Washington relocating tens of thousands of illegal immigrants in New York City and it blew up the city budget. So because he made the Biden administration look bad they’re coming for him with an indictment for doing what he’s always been doing. It’s like in Casablanca when Claude Raines’ character Captain Louis Renault tells Rick that he’s shocked, shocked to discover that there is gambling going on in Rick’s Cafe just as the croupier hands him his gambling winnings.