To hear Mayor Eric Adams tell it, the unpopularity of his administration and the implosion of his re-election campaign was all somebody else’s fault. It was rumor-mongering news outlets that scared off his donors, he said in a video statement, and a hostile Campaign Finance Board that refused to approve the millions in matching funds he needed. The fact that he was arrested last year and charged with taking bribes and illegal campaign contributions before the charges got dropped by the Trump administration? “I was wrongfully charged because I fought for this city. And if I had to do it again, I would fight for New York again,” he said.

Nowhere does Adams so much as hint at the cronyism, corruption, and bad decisions – some dating back more than a decade – that plagued his administrati

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