Adams Defers To “COIB” On Brother’s New Gig: What Is The Conflicts of Interest Board?

Mayor Eric Adams at a news conference on January 13. The mayor faces criticism for hiring his brother to manage his NYPD detail, a matter that's now going before the city's Conflicts of Interest Board.Mayor Eric Adams at a news conference on January 13. The mayor faces criticism for hiring his brother to manage his NYPD detail, a matter that's now going before the city's Conflicts of Interest Board.

“It is up to COIB,” said Adams, pronouncing the initials as a monosyllabic moniker. He went on to stress, “My opinion doesn’t matter. It’s C-O-I-B, that’s the opinion that matters.”The New York City Conflicts of Interest Board is meant to serve as the city’s conscience. It’s intended to preserve the public’s trust in city government, providing ethics training, answering questions about compliance with the city’s conflicts of interest and ethics laws, and lobbyist gift law.

“Appearances also matter,” he added, “in terms of public confidence in the integrity of their officials.”Yes, in several different ways. As a candidate and elected official, he has filed mandatory annual financial disclosure reports and received training as Brooklyn borough president, most recently in November 2020.

An official in the Adams administration confirmed that a waiver request was submitted this week. What makes Adams' request distinct from those of previous mayors is that his brother, who started December 30th, is being paid a salary and will oversee a staff of 40 NYPD officers.

If he can bring his exercise equipment to city hall can the secretaries& janitors bring theirs? Will he be exercising on company time like his predecessor ? Why are the lines between work and personal life so blurred?

He couldn’t even wait a whole MONTH to do something worthy of investigation.

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Adams confirms he is as sketchy as everyone thought.

NYC- why can’t you vote in a decent mayor, like, ever

He is not off to good start here. Unsurprisingly none of those around him warned him , or they did and he didn’t listen?

Pfft. Starting off with corruption.

So do these laws apply, or no?

🤯

Naked corruption in broad daylight. Didn’t take Adams long to betray his constituents, did it.

Congrats 'progressive' nyc , u elected a republican cop as mayor! There is zero repub opposition in this city and we can't even get affordable housing , living wages , universal health care ,ICE to leave us tf alone , or tax wall st. How pathetic.

When asked for further comment, Mayor Adams added, 'There's no 'I' in nepotism!'

He's looking more and more DeBlasian every day

We can stop pretending Mayor Adams will care about what anyone thinks for the next 4 years.

We could have had an extraordinary Madam Mayor. Now we have another narcissistic egomaniac to contend with.

Well, you left out Giuliani, who I believe, holds the record for doling out paid jobs to his relatives.

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