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Brooklyn Council Member Lincoln Restler (D–Boerum Hill) needs to shut a loophole in New York Metropolis ethics regulation, which he says permits highly effective authorities staffers to work on initiatives associated to their former personal sector employers.  Restler is now drafting a reform invoice prompted by the I-Staff’s investigation into Nathan Bliss, a Chief of Workers underneath Mayor Eric Adams, who continues to have a monetary relationship along with his former employer, actual property developer Taconic Companions. Shortly after Bliss left Taconic in 2022 and took a job because the Chief of Workers to Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer, Taconic was…

The highest federal prosecutor in Manhattan resigned Thursday after refusing a Justice Division order to drop corruption fees towards New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams. Earlier than quitting, Danielle Sassoon instructed President Donald Trump’s new legal professional normal that she was “confident” Adams had dedicated the crimes. Two senior Justice Division officers additionally resigned after the division management moved to grab management of the case. The appearing deputy U.S. legal professional normal, former Trump private lawyer Emil Bove, who had ordered the Adams case dropped, stated in a letter accepting Sassoon’s resignation that the Justice Division in Washington would file…