One of the interesting things about this indictment is that $10 million is a pretty hefty budget for the Russians here, and bought them some reasonably well-known mid-tier influencers justice.gov/d9/2024-09/u.s…

BREAKING Homes of two of the highest ranking members of Mayor Eric Adams Adams' administration raided by the FBI thecity.nyc/2024/09/05/fbi…

NEW: FBI Raids Homes of Two Top Eric Adams Aides GregBSmith thecity.nyc/2024/09/05/fbi…

🚨🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: FBI Raids Homes of Two Top Eric Adams Aides, Sheena Wright and Phil Banks, sources tell THE CITY thecity.nyc/2024/09/05/fbi…

BREAKING: FBI Raids Homes of Two Top Eric Adams Deputies thecity.nyc/2024/09/05/fbi…

H/T to katie honan & GregBSmith for getting the first crack up on feds showing up on the doorsteps of Wright and Banks. thecity.nyc/2024/09/05/fbi…

"You don't have a suspect. You don't have an arrest. You didn't prevent the violence...What, the first thing you want is a pat on the back? No, not from me."

Mayor Eric Adams doesn’t say much on the new FBI probe into top aides. “As a former law enforcement person, the goal is to follow the law. … Whatever information that’s needed, we’re going to turn it over, and I’m going to continue to be the mayor of the City of New York…”

.@nycmayor continues to assure reporters that he and his team follow the law following the raids of more top officials’s homes by feds thecity.nyc/2024/09/05/fbi…

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Just called the numbers listed for Chief John Chell to figure out if some reporting was accurate about today's federal activity and got his wife by accident. Chief calls me back and I explain why I'm calling He hands the phone to DCPI Sheppard, who calls me a "fucking scumbag."

This theory was also floated a handful of months and a handful of investigations ago.

About 20 minutes later, Tina Moore was escorted out of the reporters room in One Police Plaza

Adams' 1st Deputy Mayor, NYPD Commish, Chancellor of Education, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety, one of his closest advisors, his top fundraiser, his Asian affairs director, an official in this international affairs office... have all been raided by Feds thecity.nyc/2024/09/05/fbi…

Mayor says he would “love to engage in a good conversation” about the investigation but says he can’t and that he will let it take its course.

Reporters can’t do their jobs from where they work, meanwhile the police commissioner’s phones were seized as there appear to be multiple people involved in many investigations thecity.nyc/2024/09/05/fbi…

Furthermore, our first guest was slated to be Chancellor David Banks, who just cancelled in light of todays news.

New York. This is a place where everyday you wake up, you could experience everything from the FBI raiding someone in the mayor’s inner circle to … the FBI raiding someone else in the mayor’s inner circle.

We call this in the business “burying the lede” thecity.nyc/2024/09/05/fbi…

Distancing himself, NYC schools chancellor David Banks assured his DOE team the FBI took his cell phone only because it was found next to Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright's phone in the Harlem home they share.