Mohamed Bahi, a staffer in Mayor Adams’ office who resigned Monday, has been hit with criminal charges alleging he destroyed evidence and tampered with witnesses in the ongoing federal corruption investigation that resulted in the mayor’s indictment last month.

Anyone who thought Mayor Eric Adams would show up to his regular Tuesday media availability rattled by the latest arrest of someone in his political orbit would be sorely mistaken. “Are people expecting me to go into Grace Mansion and hide and say,

The crisis enveloping New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ administration deepened as an aide was charged with witness tampering and destroying evidence and a former Fire Department official pleaded guilty to a bribery conspiracy charge.