NEW YORK — A longtime friend of New York City Mayor Eric Adams alleged Wednesday that he was instructed to submit inflated bids for city contracts.
Bo Dietl — a former NYPD detective, one-time mayoral candidate and persistent political gadfly — said during an episode of his One Tough Podcast that he was told to triple security cost estimates at migrant shelters when submitting proposals to the Adams administration.
Dietl runs a security and private investigation firm, Beau Dietl & Associates. As POLITICO reported , he sought a municipal security contract last year with the help of Tim Pearson, a former top aide to Adams…