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Mayor-elect Eric Adams (D-New York City) has already triggered reports of conflicts of interest, and he hasn't yet been sworn in as mayor. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams (YouTube/Fair Use)

November 30, 2021

Before swearing in, Eric Adams appears to have flouted ethics rules and invoked Trump-like concerns with private membership club

With one month before his swearing in, Mayor-elect Eric Adams has reportedly flouted ethics rules governing conflicts of interest.

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With no public input, Campos Plaza I in the East Village, was sold with other project-based, Section 8 buildings in 2014 by the de Blasio Administration to a consortium of private real estate developers. The lack of transparency in the sale of public housing assets is only getting worse. Source : File Photograph

With NYCHA undergoing so much change, Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office, once critical about lack of Government transparency, now working with no openness

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for New York’s southern district, which first revealed in 2016 information about the New York City Housing Authority’s lead poisoning crisis, now violates transparency by operating in the dark.

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