BEEP RACE BOMBSHELL: Eric Adams on list of 9 Democrats secretly taped
Front runner as 'New Marty' not publicly implicated in scandal
On Wednesday morning, state Senator Eric Adams was widely viewed as the inevitable successor to retiring Borough President Marty Markowitz. Later in the day, while Adams remained the perceived front-runner, observers suggested that his march to Borough Hall might no longer be a cakewalk.
Adams was among New York State state Democrats — seven of them elected officials — named in a Federal court filing made public on Wednesday as having been secretly wiretapped by convicted bribe-taking state senator-turned-government informant Shirley Huntley. Federal prosecutors said that eight of the nine were under investigation, but a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn told the Associated Press he could not reveal which one of the nine was not.
As Adams left his Bedford Stuyvesant apartment on Wednesday, he told a New York Post reporter, “I have no comment, I have nothing to say.”