Mayor Adams mentioned 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 of intercepting the mayor on the end line of the New York Metropolis 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.
“They were contemplating grabbing my phone at the end of the marathon,” Adams mentioned to reporters after an unrelated press convention. “What was that about? You knew the place I lived. You knew what Metropolis Corridor was. You knew what Gracie Mansion was.
“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 of 2021 and continued till simply earlier than President Trump’s Division of Justice put the kibosh on it on Feb. 10, based on the filings.
Warrants on the mayor’s associates have been carried out simply days earlier than the DOJ shut it down, and the feds executed a warrant on Adams’ iCloud account after it was signed off on by Justice of the Peace Decide Stewart Aaron in December 2022 — almost a 12 months earlier than the probe burst into public view.
Adams has mentioned he did nothing mistaken. 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, mentioned in an announcement on Friday.
Finding and accessing Adams’ seven telephones grew to become 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 mentioned he had left it at Metropolis Corridor, even because the telephone gave the impression to be touring with him, the launched paperwork present.
In a Sept. 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 Facet residence.
The paperwork additionally detailed raids carried out at a Fort Lee, N.J. house the mayor shares along with his longtime girlfriend, Tracey Collins, and Gracie Mansion, the mayor’s official residence.
