Before last week, Mayor Adams was already scrambling to push past the corruption concerns swirling around his candidacy.

But Thursday’s unsealing of four different bribery indictments ensnaring Ingrid Lewis-Martin and Jesse Hamilton, two of Adams’ most trusted political confidantes, marks a setback for the mayor’s effort to try to wash his hands of corruption concerns ahead of November’s election, experts told the Daily News. His opponents were quick to seize on the moment as emblematic of failed leadership.

“I think the people who have supported him until this point will stay with him, but if you were on the fence, I think you’re looking elsewhere,” Basil Smikle, a political strategist who used to serve as the executive director of New York’s Democratic Party, said when asked how he

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