I thought this might be of interest here.
It does seem like there's more iffiness about Adams than any other mayor in a while.
The Mayor and the Con Man
Eric Adams’s friends and allies have puzzled over his relationship with Lamor Whitehead, a fraud-ster Brooklyn church leader.
Some of Adams’s rivals in the 2021 New York City mayoral race believed that reporters, constrained by the pandemic and distracted by a crowded field, didn’t dig enough into Adams’s background. “We all know you’ve been investigated for corruption everywhere you’ve gone,” Andrew Yang said to him, during a debate in the Democratic primary. With Adams, though, it has sometimes been difficult to distinguish between the unusual and the unethical.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-l...ring-a-con-man