This is the beginning of Eric Adams’ fall from power as New York mayor

‘This indictment, it should be noted, was related to one of at least four possible federal probes into the Adams administration.’ Photograph: Yuki Iwamura/AP

For the first time in the modern history of New York City, a sitting mayor has been indicted.

Eric Adams will now know the fate of Donald Trump – to be indicted and possibly convicted in a Manhattan courtroom. Damian Williams, the US attorney for the southern district, has unsealed a 57-page indictment that accused Adams of performing favors for Turkish foreign nationals after accepting more than $100,000 in international plane tickets and accommodations, as well as soliciting illegal donations from them. These donations generated public matching funds for his mayoral campaign in 2021.