NY Attorney David Schwartz Talking About NYC Mayor Eric Adams Being Indicted @CBSNewYork

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0:00 as Ali mentioned prosecutors say Adams 0:01 let Turkish officials buy his influence 0:04 yeah just to review here one part of 0:06 that indictment centers around this 0:07 building the Turkish Consulate in 0:09
Manhattan Adams alleged allegedly 0:12 pressuring the FDNY to open that 0:15 building despite safety concerns dick 0:17 Brennan joins us now live from City Hall 0:19 with more on that part of the story 0:22 dick well Christine marce here it is 0:24 that 57 page indictment we've all been 0:27 talking about filled with allegations of 0:29 corrupt ion against the mayor of the 0:31 city of New York but the big question is 0:33 does this add up to a 0:35 conviction the US attorney says Eric 0:38 Adams was being showered with gifts some 0:40 $100,000 in travel benefits from 0:43 officials in turkey and in exchange even 0:45 pressured to get a consulate open before 0:47 it was ready he intervened in the New 0:49 York City fire department's inspection 0:51 process for a building owned and 0:53 operated by the Turkish government 0:55 allowing it to open even though it had 0:57 not passed the fire inspection the 35 St 1:00 consulate stands across the street from 1:02 the United Nations Headquarters it's 1:04 common that the fire department is 1:06 actually in some cases the last agency 1:08 to to do final inspections of the 1:09 building before it opens and of course 1:11 all the pressure of opening falls on the 1:13 Fire Department fire protection engineer 1:16 Glenn Corbett says some buildings can 1:18 open with outstanding issues but only if 1:21 they're not major ones at the end of the 1:23 day the fire department has that 1:24 responsibility of making sure that if 1:26 they do allow the building to open with 1:28 for example a temporary CFO that there's 1:30 a fundamental acceptable level of Fire 1:33 Protection in the building Adams now has 1:35 to defend himself against charges of 1:37 bribery and soliciting illegal campaign 1:40 contributions he allegedly took steps to 1:42
conceal those illegal contributions and 1:45 personal benefits and involved city 1:48 employees and campaign staff in that 1:51 concealment are these cases hard to 1:53 prove these cases are extremely hard to
1:55 prove defense attorney David Schwarz 1:57 says recent US Supreme Court rulings 1:59 have made public corruption cases more 2:01 difficult to prove for prosecutors we 2:03 certainly have upgrades on flights we 2:07 have hotel rooms which May challenge 2:10 certain ethical obligations but that 2:13 does that cross into the criminal Arena 2:15 Eric Adams didn't take gold bricks he 2:18 didn't take jewelry he didn't take he 2:21 didn't have cash in his freezer this is 2:25 a campaign that was benefiting 2:30 now the mayor says he's going to leave 2:32 his legal case up to his lawyers to run 2:35 in the meantime he says he will continue
2:37 to run the city of New York we're live 2:39 at City Hall dick Brennan CBS News New 2:41 York dick thank you now