Last month, Eric Adams confirmed months of swirling rumors and dropped his beleaguered reelection campaign . Just days after he made his exit official, City Hall announced that Adams would be doing what any outgoing mayor trying to shore up his legacy would: taking a previously unannounced four-day trip to Albania and revealing said trip only after having left the city.

A spokesperson for the mayor told WNBC that his visit to Albania, which ends on Thursday, stemmed from an invitation from the Albanian prime minister and is solely about strengthening business ties between the two nations. Adams’s past foreign trips have famously been subject to intense federal scrutiny .

City Hall told WNBC , which first reported the trip, that the city (and thus taxpayers) would be covering th

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