{"id":1211827,"date":"2022-01-12T16:20:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T21:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1211827"},"modified":"2022-01-12T16:20:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T21:20:37","slug":"nyc-mayor-eric-adams-demotes-brother-to-210000-salary-following-accusations-of-nepotism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-demotes-brother-to-210000-salary-following-accusations-of-nepotism\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Eric Adams Demotes Brother \u2014 To $210,000 Salary \u2014 Following Accusations Of Nepotism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyc-mayor-eric-adams-demotes-brother-to-210000-salary-following-accusations-of-nepotism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1211827&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Officials confirmed Wednesday that Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams demoted his younger brother following a wave of backlash and accusations of nepotism.<\/p>\n<p>Adams demoted his brother Bernard \u2014 a 56-year-old NYPD retiree and former assistant director for parking at Virginia Commonwealth University \u2014 from the Deputy New York Police Commissioner to executive director of mayoral security after accusations of scandal and nepotism, the New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/12\/nyregion\/bernard-adams-brother-mayor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. Bernard\u2019s salary will be $210,000&nbsp; \u2014 a $30,000 cut from the purported $240,000 salary he would have had as Deputy Commissioner, NYT noted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">After just a week on the job, New York City mayor Eric Adams has appointed his brother Bernard as a deputy police commissioner <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Iu0ivzWYC6\">https:\/\/t.co\/Iu0ivzWYC6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thedailybeast\/status\/1479905761174114309?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The mayor defended his initial choice to hire his brother in a top position, claiming that white supremacy and anarchy were on the rise and that he could not trust anyone as much as \u201chis own kin,\u201d NYT reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersonal security \u2014 my life, my life \u2014 I want in the hands of my brother with his 20-year law enforcement experience,\u201d Adams reportedly said. \u201cHe has the police experience, but he also has the personal experience. He knows his brother, and he\u2019s going to keep his brother safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, according to NYT, Bernard had never been part of a protective detail unit and reportedly did not handle a weapon during his tenure at Virginia Commonwealth University.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Lerner, executive director of good governance group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/new-york\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Common Cause New York<\/a>, criticized Adams for the appointment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Yorkers expect that public servants are hired based on their unique qualifications and not because they are the mayor\u2019s brother,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityandstateny.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/can-eric-adams-really-hire-his-brother\/360532\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>, according to local outlet City and State NY.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Adams [D-NY] hands police jobs to brother, corrupt officer <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fv8Pfn8nJM\">https:\/\/t.co\/fv8Pfn8nJM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Georgia Log Cabin (@GeorgiaLogCabin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeorgiaLogCabin\/status\/1480695841786449920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Adams is not alone in appointing family members to positions in the New York City government. Former Mayors Michael Bloomberg and Bill de Blasio surrounded themselves with members of their family, however, they were not paid and did not hold high-ranking titles, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/07\/adams-taps-younger-brother-bernard-as-a-deputy-nypd-commissioner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to<\/a> the New York Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials confirmed Wednesday that Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams demoted his younger brother following a wave of backlash and accusations of nepotism.Adams demoted his brother Bernard \u2014 a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}