New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams speaks throughout a information convention at Metropolis Corridor, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022, in New York. (AP Photograph/John Minchillo)
A New York Metropolis ethics panel has agreed that Mayor Eric Adams can rent his brother as a senior safety adviser, however solely at US$1 per yr and with no energy over division personnel.
The choice by the New York Metropolis Conflicts of Curiosity Board, made public on Thursday, follows an uproar that erupted after Adams sought to rent his youthful brother Bernard as a deputy police commissioner at a yearly wage of $240,000.
The mayor responded by reassigning Bernard Adams, 51, to be safety adviser and mentioned he would search steering from the ethics board.
The panel mentioned that whereas a metropolis constitution prohibits public servants from searching for benefits for members of their household, it might grant Adams a waiver to rent his brother as a result of the job of senior safety adviser can be primarily unpaid and carry no authority inside the New York Metropolis Police Division.
The ethics board granted an analogous waiver to Adams' predecessor, Invoice de Blasio, who appointed his spouse to go the board of administrators for a not-for-profit philanthropic group.
"Bernard Adams is uniquely certified for this job, and so as to keep away from even the looks of a battle of curiosity, he supplied to serve for the nominal wage of $1. We made this proposal to the Battle of Curiosity Board they usually've agreed, and we're grateful to Bernard for being prepared to serve town for no wage," spokesman Maxwell Younger mentioned in a written assertion.
Eric Adams, a 61-year-old former New York Metropolis police officer who took workplace on Jan. 1, confronted accusations of nepotism after saying the appointment of his brother to a high-paid job in his administration.
Adams, a Democrat, was elected in November after pledging to deal with violent crime.
(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Modifying by Aurora Ellis and Rosalba O'Brien)
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