New York City Building Commissioner Eric Ulrich is reportedly involved in an ongoing criminal investigation by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg centered around illegal gambling.
The commissioner was served a search warrant by investigators near his Rockaway Park home on Tuesday and had his phone seized by the g-men, the New York Times reported.
Ulrich, 37, represented southeastern Queens and the Rockaway Peninsula in the City Council as a Republican between 2009 and 2021. Never quite the conservative firebrand as some of his GOP colleagues, Ulrich supported Eric Adams during his campaign for the mayoralty; he entered 2022 as a senior advisor to the mayor before Adams named buildings commissioner in May.
