‘I am not guilty, Your Honor’: Mayor Adams pleads innocence at arraignment on federal corruption indictment

By Ethan Stark-Miller and Robert Pozarycki Posted on September 27, 2024

Mayor Eric Adams pleaded not guilty in Manhattan Federal Court on Friday to charges that he allegedly engaged in a decade of public corruption that included bribery and campaign finance fraud.

Hizzoner, the first sitting New York City mayor ever to be criminally indicted, appeared before Magistrate Judge Katherine Parker at his noon arraignment hearing on Sept. 27, a day after being indicted in a case brought before the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York.

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‘I am not guilty, Your Honor’: Mayor Adams pleads innocence at arraignment on federal corruption indictment

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