Eric Adams fined $4K over whistles on reporters’ chairs, citing Cuomo

Adams Fined for Using Taxpayer Money to Spotlight Cuomo Sexual Harassment Charges

Former Mayor Eric Adams was fined $4,000 for an August 2025 press conference where he ordered City Hall staff to buy whistles to make a political opponent look bad. The Aug. 22 press conference was held inside City Hall’s rotunda hours after his former aide Ingrid Lewis-Martin and other staffers were indicted on corruption charges — the second set of charges for Lewis-Martin, one of Adams’s closest advisors. When reporters arrived, there were wh…

Former Mayor Eric Adams fined $4,000 for handling out whistles as campaign dig at Cuomo

Former Mayor Eric Adams was fined $4,000 for a mayoral campaign trail stunt last summer during which he handed out whistles for female reporters he said might feel “unsafe” talking to then-political opponent Andrew Cuomo. Adams broke rules guarding government resources by having staffers on the city’s dime distribute whistles to reporters as a dig to Cuomo at the Aug. 22 City Hall news conference, the Conflicts of Interest Board said Monday. At …

Former Mayor Adams fined for using city press event to attack political rival

The city’s ethics board fined former Mayor Eric Adams and two other officials for misusing government resources during the 2025 election season.

Eric Adams fined $4K over whistles on reporters’ chairs, citing Cuomo

The board said Adams had staff put whistles on reporters’ chairs at a press event last year; he said they were meant to help female reporters feel safer questioning ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo.