Ethics watchdogs and the former chair of the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board are raising questions about two recent appointments by Mayor Eric Adams, saying they may run afoul of the city’s nepotism laws.
Nepotism is a tricky charge when it comes to big city politics, with many office holders defending the practice of hiring family and friends.
To this point, Chicago’s former Mayor Richard J. Daley once asked, “Who should I help? My enemies?”
Adams has defended the recent announcement that he’s appointed his brother, Bernard Adams, a retired New York Police Department sergeant, as a deputy commissioner of the NYPD. Adams has also received criticism
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