Cost of Corruption: Tens of Millions in Salary for Employees Involved in NYC Mayor's Bribery Investigation

 There are a dozen other individuals somehow involved in various angles of the investigation, and New York City taxpayers paid them more than $3 million worth of salary in 2023.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams recently earned a rather ignominious distinction: he became the first sitting NYC mayor to be indicted when he was charged in late September with five counts of bribery, wire fraud and soliciting illegal foreign donations.

(Adams’ lawyers allege prosecutors leaked grand jury material and other sensitive information in “brazen violations” of the rules.)

Over the course of a decade, taxpayers invested $13.34 million in salary as they advanced to leadership ranks.

For their trouble, New Yorkers got a complex web of alleged criminal behavior and mutual favors among Adams associates, friends and family.

All city officials and high-level employees must disclose any potential conflicts of interest to the NYC Conflicts of Interest Board, which Adams did not do.

He had already been under investigation by the city Department of Investigation. 

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