Adams briefly spoke to a gaggle of reporters waiting for him outside the cathedral in Queens, where the mayor was attending an event to celebrate a new reverend.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams was indicted Thursday on federal charges alleging that he took bribes and illegal campaign contributions from foreign sources. The U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan alleges in the indictment that Adams “compounded his gains” from the illegal contributions by gaming the city’s matching funds program,