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Even though the press likes to give Mamdani all the credit for these types of things, this started with a law passed under DeBlasio, and most of the investigation was done under Adams.

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Mamdani deserves credit for taking this all the way.

Adams was "indicted in September 2024 on federal charges including bribery and wire fraud, accused of accepting over $100,000" from Turkey. He's now an Albanian citizen, because "he loves travel."

I don't really agree that this judgement would have happened with anyone as mayor. That road is long and paved with gold distractions.

> taking this all the way.

How did you arrive to this conclusion?

I think they just explained how corrupt the prior mayor was, this coupled with the disclosure by Mamdani about every prior mayor hiding air safety data after 9/11 paint a damning picture of the priorities of prior NYC mayors in recent memory.

Yes, the road is long and these sorts of investigations take time. Eric Adams is an old-school, working-class New Yorker. They tend to be corrupt, but they do get stuff done. His administration resolved a $20M Chipotle lawsuit, then launched and resolved a $39M Starbucks lawsuit.

really we should be giving credit to hammurabi for developing the idea of laws in the first place. where would deblasio be without him??

Is that the explanation your boss forced you to accept when you did 90% of the work and he took all the credit?

>most of the investigation was done under Adams.

Better than about him like the rest of it, I suppose.

Perhaps we should give credit to Adams' parents for having a child, else the investigation would have never kicked off.

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