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0:00 good evening I'm Maurice tuac Christine 0:02 is off the mayor is trying to push 0:04 forward with City business despite the 0:06 historic nature of his criminal 0:08 indictment in a lower Manhattan 0:09 courtroom today the mayor pleaded no 0:11 guilty to Federal bribery conspiracy and 0:14 campaign finance charges and now new 0:17 information after his chief advisor 0:19 ingred Lewis Martin had her home 0:21
searched and her phone seized by federal 0:24 agents we have Team coverage of today's 0:26 big developments let's start with Lori 0:27 bordonaro at Gracie Mansion tonight 0:30 Maurice ingred Lewis Martin says she's 0:32 done nothing wrong and plans to stick by 0:34 mayor Adams who went back to work after 0:37 court mayor Eric Adams backed to 0:40 business attending a birthday party at a 0:42 harlem Senior Center just hours after 0:44 pleading not guilty to Federal 0:46 corruption charges the mayor gave a
0:48 thumbs up outside the courthouse while 0:50 his attorney condemned the charges this 0:53 case isn't even a real case this is the 0:55 airline upgrade corruption case 0:58 according to the indictment mayor Adam 1:00 sought and accepted improper gifts like 1:02 more than $100,000 in luxury travel and 1:05 illegal campaign contributions from 1:07 wealthy foreign business people and at 1:09 least one Turkish government official in 1:11 exchange for his political influence 1:14 there are no emails text messages or any
1:17 coroporation whatsoever that the mayor 1:19 knew about anything having to do with 1:21 these campaign donations the next week 1:23 we'll be filing a motion to dismiss we 1:25 expect these charges to be dismissed the 1:28 investigation into the alleged 1:29 corruption plaguing the Adams 1:30 Administration is widening on Friday 1:33 investigators searched the Brooklyn home 1:35 of ingred Lewis Martin the mayor's
1:37 longtime friend and chief adviser police 1:40 they were watching the house they were 1:41 taking out files and stuff leis Martin 1:44 spoke on her attorney's radio show later 1:45 in the day she says her phone was seized 1:48 at the airport Friday morning as she 1:50 returned home from Japan Federal 1:52 authorities also served her with a 1:54 subpoena I don't know anything I've done 1:56 nothing and I don't think that there's 1:58 anything to know none of a perfect we 2:00 are far from perfect because we're human 2:02 beings we are imperfect but we're not 2:05 thieves Lewis Martin's attorney says she 2:07 is not the target of the investigation 2:10 as for mayor Adams he is scheduled to be 2:12 back in court on Wednesday on the Upper 2:14 East Side Lori bordo CBS News New York 2:17 tonight many people are wondering 2:18 whether the mayor can hang on to the job 2:20 and for how long Adams faced even more 2:23 calls today to resign but he insists 2:26 he's not going anywhere dick Brennan 2:27 here now with more on how Adams is 2:29
trying to push through all this dick 2:31 well Maurice we can tell you that 2:32 innocent until proven guilty the most 2:34 important words in our justice system 2:37 but what about running the city of New 2:38 York can Eric Adams pull off the 2:40 juggling act depends on who you ask 2:43 facing a Federal indictment and 2:44
investigation still swirling around his 2:46 administration the pressure is building 2:48 on mayor Adams despite a court 2:50 appearance today he's determined to go 2:52 about the business of the city a kind of
2:55 what me worry POS but the demands for 2:57 his resignation will only get louder can 2:59 the May survive this the mayor can 3:01 survive this the problem is what happens 3:03 when the other investigations are 3:05 concluded when the arrests are made 3:06 which is likely with the four other 3:08 investigations involving City officials 3:10 in his administration Governor hok 3:12 theoretically has the power to remove
3:14 Adams from office but has not indicated 3:16 she would take that major step and the 3:18 man next in line to take over if 3:20 necessary says Adams needs to do some 3:22 soul searching can you do the job of
3:25 making government continue to run uh and 3:28 can you continue to 3:30 uh exude trust for the people of the 3:33 city of New York those are questions 3:35 that I'm hoping the mayor's really 3:37 grapping with it in Earnest some legal 3:39 experts say while the case made in the 3:41 indictment appears strong it's not a
3:43 slam dunk an indictment is evidence of 3:46 nothing so the mayor should not be 3:48 forced to leave his job he should be 3:50 able to fight these charges as long as 3:53 he's able to also represent the interest
3:56 of the people of the city of New York 3:57 Adams attorneys would be happy to make 3:59 it go away and will try that legal long 4:02 shot the motion to dismiss it would be 4:04 great for Eric Adams if his case were
4:06 dismissed is it likely this is too big 4:08 this is the office that took down 4:09 Senator Bob Menendez from New Jersey 4:11 just a few weeks ago this is a big one 4:13 and are they going to give up easy the 4:15
answer is the feds never give up easy 4:17 and in that court hearing next Wednesday 4:19 Adam's attorneys say he will be 4:21 demanding evidence from the prosecution 4:24 in addition once again to asking the 4:25
judge to throw the whole case out 4:28 Maurice okay dick thank you you and for 4:30 the latest on the mayor including the 4:32 full indictment at a breakdown of the 4:33 major players in the investigations head 4:36
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