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Sep 2024
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How Eric Adams Became New York City’s Fi...

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL & GIMLET
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The mayor of America’s largest city likes to say he’s been “rejected, arrested and then elected.” Now, he’s been indicted. WSJ’s Jimmy Vielkind unpacks the unprecedented federal foreign bribery case against Eric Adams.


Further Listening:

-Gold Bars, Cash and a Mercedes: A U.S. Senator's Corruption Trial 


Further Reading:

-Inside the Eric Adams Indictment 

-After the Eric Adams Indictment, What’s Next? 


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