Over the past five weeks, Mayor Eric Adams has seen his police and health commissioners, his schools chancellor, his chief legal counsel, two deputy mayors, his close friend and senior adviser, and four high-ranking staffers depart amid a shroud of scandal covering City Hall.
Yet Adams claimed on Tuesday that none of the recent spate of resignations from the upper ranks of his administration were connected to his indictment or the deluge of other federal investigations currently underway.
