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Four best deputies from the Eric Adams administration submitted their resignation on Monday, in the last sign of support for the cellard of the mayor of New York among the basic workers and the elected officials of the city.
Maria Torres-Springer, first deputy mayor; Anne Williams-Isom, deputy mayor for health and social services; Meera Joshi, deputy mayor of operations; And Chauncey Parker, deputy mayor of public security, all informed Adams on Monday that they would withdraw from their posts.
“I am disappointed to see them go, but given the current challenges, I understand their decision and I only wish them success in the future,” Adams said in a statement announcing resignations.
It is not yet clear when resignations will take effect. In the press release, Adams said that “assistant mayors will remain in their role at the moment to ensure a transparent transition”.
The resignations of the most important officials in view of the city mark an important change for the Adams administration, which has struggled to reset after a service note from the Ministry of Justice ordered prosecutors last week Federal in New York to reject the accusations of corruption against the mayor.
The order of the Doj sparked a mass resignation of prosecutors in New York and Washington, including the acting American lawyer in the South New York district, which resigned rather than carrying out the order to reject the Corruption case against Adams, a democrat. Prosecutors have decried the order to suppress the accusations – which in part quoted the role of Adams as mayor helping the Trump administration to combat illegal immigration – as a good deal rising to a “counterpart ».
On Sunday, the four assistant mayors received a call with Adams and agreed not to make a final decision while de -immersion, according to a familiar official with the discussions. However, Joshi, Torres-Springer and Williams-Isom contacted Adams on Monday morning and said they had finalized their decisions to resign.
“Because of the extraordinary events of the last weeks and to remain faithful to the oaths we have sworn in New Yorkers and our families, we made the decision difficult to leave our roles”, Torres-Springer, Williams-Isom and Joshi declared in a joint declaration.
Torres-Springer, Williams-Isom and Joshi are career officials and highly appreciated in the city’s government circles. They are also responsible for setting up a large part of the mayor’s agenda. Their portfolios include some of the largest agencies in the city, including the public hospital system, the Ministry of Services of the Sans-Abri and the mayor’s Immigrant Affairs Bureau, to appoint only a few.
Since Adams was charged with federal corruption accusations last year, the group was considered a stable hand that could allow the city government to run the government, even though the mayor was distracted by the case against him.
Parker, a newcomer relating to the administration, said in a statement: “serving as deputy mayor of public security under the mayor Adams was an honor of a life. … I am convinced that the administration will continue our mission to deliver to the inhabitants of this city. »»
Departures on Monday take place for months after another cycle of senior officials left the administration shortly after the accusations against the mayor in September.
Last year, the Ministry of Justice brought accusations of public corruption against Adams during the first chase of an in -office mayor in the modern history of the city. Adams pleaded not guilty of federal accusation of corruption, corruption, fraud by thread and solicitation and acceptance of donations from foreign nationals, and the case was to be tried this spring. Last week’s ordinance indicates that the accusations should be rejected “without prejudice”, which means that they could be refreshed on a later date.
The Directive of the Ministry of Justice underlined the mayor’s need to cooperate with the federal immigration authorities – which, according to New York legislators, puts Adams in a position of “fee” to the administration of President Donald Trump .
After the news of the directive last week, Adams also met Trump’s border tsar and declared that he would use his executive powers to increase the collaboration of the city’s police with the federal immigration authorities .
Adams told Fox News on Friday that there was no “quid pro quo” to ensure that the DoJ abandons the accusations in exchange for his cooperation on the application of immigration. Tom Homan’s Tom Homan’s TSAR border on Sunday, also called it “ridiculous” that concessions made by Adams to leave the application of immigration and customs in the Island Rikers prison was linked to the Doj directive.
Several legislators of the city and the State called for the resignation of Adams or to the housekeeper Kathy Hochul to use her power to remove it. The Democratic Governor said she weighed her options but has not been committed to taking any measures.
In response to the resignations of the deputies on Monday, the president of the municipal council, Adrienne Adams, said that the mayor should resign. The president declared in a statement in a misunderstanding that the mayor had “lost the confidence and confidence of his own staff, his colleagues in the government and the New Yorkers”.
“He must now prioritize New York and New York, withdraw and resign,” she said. “These resignations are the culmination of the mayor’s actions and decisions which have led to months of instability and now compromise the sovereignty of the city, threaten chaos and risk harming our families.”
The city controller, Brad Lander, who presents himself against Eric Adams in the elementary of the Mayor in June, also published an immediate response, sending a letter to the mayor asking the administration to detail his emergency plans while four High civil servants are preparing to leave their posts.
“These departures would create an unprecedented leadership vacuum cleaner at the highest levels of government in the city and wreaks havoc on the city’s ability to provide essential services to New Yorkers,” Lander said.
The request for a plan also included a warning: if the mayor does not submit to it by the end of this week, Lander said that he would convene a meeting of the incapacity committee. The incapacity committee could trigger what can be described as the version of New York’s dismissal, a decision that has never been used in the modern history of the city.
According to the City Charter, a “committee of incapacity of the mayor” would be made up of five members: the city council, the controller, the president of the municipal council, an assistant mayor selected by the mayor and the highest president range. Four of the five should accept to train the committee, then the municipal council – where Adams does not have a large support – would vote to declare Adams temporarily or definitively “unable” to pay the powers and duties of the office, according to The Charter.
This story has been updated with additional information.
