Wish to know, in simply 11 phrases, why New Yorkers now not belief public officers?
“Corrections will handle me. I’ve been good to them.”
That’s what Eric Adams’ ally and former high aide Ingrid Lewis-Martin allegedly mentioned whereas being investigated for bribe-taking and favor-trading.
Not: I humbly apologize to the individuals of the town whose belief I betrayed.
Not even a easy: Effectively, ya bought me!
However a smarming, smirking, self-pleased croon primarily based on her personal sense of impunity to something resembling actual accountability.
Heck, it’s like she took a web page from Joe Biden, one other proud aider and abetter of (if not a direct participant in) open criminality.
Martin’s alleged to have taken greater than $100,000 in bribes from two hoteliers in alternate for fast-tracking constructing permits on their initiatives, whereas utilizing her son as an middleman (and reducing him into the proceeds by shopping for him a Porsche).
She’s been caught joking about her alleged criminality earlier than: “Your sister needs to be wealthy! I’m gonna retire,” Lewis-Martin reportedly mentioned at one level.
However overtly gloating that you simply’ll face no penalties since you’re in good with the large guys operating the prisons is a brand new degree of depravity.
It additionally speaks to the mindset of not less than some key gamers on Adams’ workforce since he took workplace, from Lewis-Martin to ex-Police Commissioner Edward Caban and ex-Buildings Commissioner Eric Ulrich, to not point out different pols.
And the troubling lack of oversight into what they’re as much as.
Too many elected officers — and their flunkies — undertake the “Legal guidelines are for the little individuals” method common among the many Bidens, et al.
The true marvel is how the general public can belief any of them.
