FOLEY SQUARE, Nov 29 – With NYC Mayor Eric Adams asking a judge to move his corruption trial up to April Fools Day 2025 in order to run for re-election, on November 29 a new book was published about the case, "US v. Eric Adams: City of Maybe," book and audiobook on Amazon here.
Inner City Press reporter Matthew Russell Lee covered Adams' speech at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in May 2022 - then his arraignment on Turkish bribery and straw donor charges in 2024. He live tweeted and included the motion to dismiss proceedings and some reflections of his character Kurt Wheelock, previously reviewed in New York magazine.
The book begins: "It was May 24, 2022 in a garden next to the SDNY Federal courthouse. Eric Adams stood at the podium and said, "I turned pain into purpose." The question, to some, was to what purpose?
Two and a half years later, he proclaimed his innocence and asked to move his trial up to April Fool's Day 2025, saying anything later would hurt his chances to run for re-election. Already, more and more candidates declared to run against him. How would the court case play out? Would it be decisive or, like those of Trump, be superseded, delayed, or even dropped? By Trump? Inner City Press is covering all these cases in SDNY, and corruption in the UN including Turkey's Mission before that. This is the story, City of Maybe, Part I."
Audiobook and paperback coming.
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