• FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Guys I am not good at laws, is it good or bad when your lawyer resigns during multiple corruption investigations centered on you

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
    hexagon
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    2 months ago

    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.”

    [...]

    The U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn is conducting the fourth.

    • Rojo27 [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      LOL as Saturday night resignation announcement. Totally coincidental timing so as to avoid maximal media coverage.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • ped_xing [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • GoodGuyWithACat [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    My NYC said this is because Adams had been critical of the Biden regime. The King is putting an audacious baron back in his place.