News at six.
Note that the Trump administration exceptionally cancelled the prosecution of Adams for previous offences, enabling new offences: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74nl3120k4o
Not making a claim as to what is actually true, just positing explanations. Heck, maybe plot twist: it is actually Eric Adams behind it, but the "account takeover" possibility was planned to serve as plausible deniability.
You know... like "an actor that's playing a dude, disguised as another dude" type thing.
In my defense, I don't think I'm stupid; I just don't want to believe so many people in power are cartoonishly evil, so I tend to look for explanations that don't require it. I think my internal sense of the world wants there to be a distinction between, say, average cryptoscammer evil buffoonery and the people in positions where at least ostensibly they try to present as a good guy while trying to keep their evildoings secret. This story gives me some sort of cognitive dissonance, and while reflecting on that fact, I get a bit sad. This world is bonkers.
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