New York Mayor Eric Adams� brother is leaving his volunteer post as a mayoral security adviser, a position he took after controversy over initial plans to hire him in a high-paid city job.
In an interview that aired Friday, Bernard Adams told PIX11 News that he�ll wrap up at City Hall next week. The mayor then publicly thanked his brother for his role in the Adams administration, now a little over a year old.
�When it comes to protecting my life, there was no one I trusted more than my baby brother,� the mayor said in a statement tweeted by a spokesperson.
Both brothers are retired New York Police Department officers. Bernard Adams went on to work as a parking administrator at a Virginia university as his brother, a Democrat, went into New York politics. He won a state senate seat, the Brooklyn borough presidency and then the 2021 mayor�s race.
Days after being sworn in, Eric Adams appointed his brother as a deputy police commissioner, a move that stirred questions about how much authority the NYPD�s then-new commissioner would have. Next, the mayor proposed making his brother the $210,000-a-year head of the mayoral security detail, a team staffed by police officers and housed under the NYPD.
City law bars public servants from using their position to obtain �any financial gain, contract, license, privilege or other private or personal advantage, direct or indirect� for themselves or an associated person, including a sibling. But the city Conflicts of Interest Board can issue waivers.
While seeking such a waiver, Adams� administration decided instead to have Bernard Adams serve as a senior security adviser for $1 a year. Prior mayors also have appointed relatives to volunteer posts.
At the time, Eric Adams said that bringing his brother into his administration �was never about the money� but about having a trusted hand with security.
Bernard Adams told PIX11 News he helped put together a strong security team for his brother and now plans to enjoy more time with his family.
He said leaving City Hall is �definitely bittersweet because I love him, but I�ll still call him, big bro, when I need to talk to him.�
(AP)
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Wow. So I guess Mayor Adams is no longer petrified of these evil maga hat wearing WHITE supremacists, as he initially claimed. Interesting. Eric is no longer scared of Whitey.