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New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced on Thursday he will be switching parties and running as an independent candidate. He made his announcement in a video released just one day after a federal judge dismissed his corruption case. “More than 25,000 New Yorkers signed my Democratic primary petition, but the dismissal of the bogus case against me dragged on too long making it impossible to mount a primary campaign while these false accusations were held over me ,” he said.
Eric Adams responds to Trump's 'King' claims with 'Holocaust' comparison New York City slated to approve building of 80,000 new homes as crisis prevails “And that is why today, although I am still a Democrat, I am announcing that I will forgo the Democratic primary for mayor and appeal directly to all New Yorkers as an independent candidate in the general election.” “Let me be clear, though the charges against me were false, I trusted people I should not have, and I regret that,” Adam said. Eric Adams, who became Brooklyn Borough President within a year, was accused of building relationships with foreign nationals 'seeking influence with him,' as per the unsealed indictment papers initially released by AP.
He allegedly started receiving 'straw contributions' that were matched by a government program. Most notably, Adams spent his tenure as Brooklyn borough president and mayor traveling to places like Nice, France; Istanbul, Turkey; Columbo, Sri Lanka; and Beijing, China. But on Wednesday, the case was dismissed "with prejudice" meaning the Department of Justice cannot bring back the charges against Adams based on the same evidence used in the case, which was filed in U.
S. District Court in Manhattan. Judge Dale Ho said there's "zero" evidence the case was politically motivated.
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