The Chips Fall as Rivals Fry the Mayor

Rival candidates lined up to roast Mayor Eric Adams in the wake of a new bribery indictment of his close longtime advisor and the news that a campaign confidante had handed a reporter for THE CITY cash stuffed inside a potato chip bag.

Andrew Cuomo, who, like Adams, is running as an independent after a humbling loss in the Democratic primary to socialist Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, handed out bags of chips to reporters at a campaign event where he called Chipgate “embarassing.”

Jim Walden, a former federal prosecutor also running as an independent, reupped his call for a citywide department of public integrity…

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