Timothy Pearson stepped down from his role as senior adviser for public safety — a job that earned him a $257,374 salary, one of the highest in the administration. His resignation, goes into effect this Friday, Oct. 4, according to his resignation letter, which was obtained by POLITICO.

Another top aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams resigned Monday, even as the Democrat’s lawyers launched a legal attack on the federal corruption case against him and asked a judge to toss out bribery charges.

John Oliver is not letting NYC Mayor Eric Adams off easy, following his arrest and indictment capping off a corruption scandal that rocked the city last week.

Attorneys for New York City Mayor Eric Adams are urging a federal judge to dismiss the bribery charge brought against him last week

Mayor Adams moved to dismiss a bribery count against him in his federal corruption indictment Monday, describing the allegations as “extraordinarily vague” and claiming the sweeping case brought by Manhattan prosecutors is based largely on the word of a disgruntled ex-staffer.

Lawyers for New York Mayor Eric Adams asked a federal judge on Monday to dismiss the bribery charge included in his federal indictment, saying the government’s allegations are “extraordinarily vague” and failed to prove Adams broke the law.

A tumultuous week in New York City politics ended with Mayor Eric Adams being indicted for bribery. It begs the question, how much longer can he continue to be mayor? Adams was charged with five counts of bribery,