Mayor Adams’ top City Hall lawyer quits, FBI investigation intensifies

Lauren Taylor

PRESSURE IS GROWING ON NEW YORK CITY MAYOR ERIC ADAMS … AS KEY MEMBERS OF HIS ADMINISTRATION RESIGNED FOLLOWING F-B-I RAIDS. 

MAYOR ADAMS ANNOUNCED LATE SATURDAY NIGHT, HIS CHIEF LEGAL ADVISOR LISA ZORNBERG WAS STEPPING DOWN.

ACCORDING TO DIGITAL NEWS OUTLET “THE CITY” …  ZORNBERG MET WITH ANOTHER KEY MAYORAL AID, TIM PEARSON … AT LEAST FOUR TIMES TO DISCUSS “ASYLUM SEEKER CRISIS CONTRACTS.”

PEARSON’S PHONE WAS SEIZED BY THE F-B-I … AS PART OF ONE OF FOUR SEPARATE LEGAL PROBES INTO CITY HALL. 

THEN 10 DAYS LATER … ZORNBERG ANNOUNCED HER DEPARTURE IN A LETTER SAYING … “I AM TENDERING MY RESIGNATION, EFFECTIVE TODAY, AS I HAVE CONCLUDED THAT I CAN NO LONGER EFFECTIVELY SERVE IN MY POSITION.”

REPORTERS CAUGHT UP WITH MAYOR ADAMS YESTERDAY … AT THE CITY’S “AFRICAN AMERICAN DAY PARADE.”

HERE’S WHAT HE HAD TO SAY ABOUT ZORNBERG’S RESIGNATION … “You know how I am… I don’t share private conversations with what we talked about… but there’s nothing involving any new development… she wanted to go on with the next level of her professional life.”

LAST WEEK, NYPD COMMISSIONER, EDWARD CABAN STEPPED DOWN AFTER F-B-I AGENTS RAIDED HIS PHONE AND SEIZED HIS CELL PHONE. 

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FOR SAN … I’M LAUREN TAYLOR.