NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams’ supporters were planning to hold a big campaign kick off next weekend at Gracie Mansion, his official residence.
On Friday, invitees who volunteered for his last campaign got an email alerting them otherwise: “Apologies for the inconvenience but Saturday, September 14th’s event has been POSTPONED.”
The sudden change of plans comes one day after it became public that federal agents executed search warrants on some of Adams’ top appointees, including his first deputy mayor Sheena Wright and NYPD commissioner Edward Caban.
The FBI’s interest marks two new separate investigations into people trying to profit off family members in government, NBC New York reported Friday . That would mean there are at least four federal probes touching the mayor’s inner circle, which further threatens Adams’ reelection and comes at a time when he is already on shaky ground.
That has quickly led all the potential mayoral candidates — including Adams himself — to game out in real time the best way to respond.