Mayor of New York City Eric AdamsA Democrat, plans to make a lawsuit against the Trump government after the federal government has secretly withdrawn more than $ 80 million in financing for the migrant shelter of the city.
Adams administration counsel sent a letter to the city of Comptroller Brad Lander on Friday and said that the legal department of the city was planning to take legal steps at the end of next week to the earlier this week of $ 80.5 million in FEMA having taken payments back, according to the New York Post. Lander runs against Adams in the primary elections of the Democratic Democrat for the mayor of the city.
“The legal department is currently in drawing up lawsuits with regard to this issue,” said business adviser Mureil Goorde-Trufant Lander in a letter, the outlet reported.
“We are planning to start legal steps on February 21, 2025. Since the legal department represents the city of New York in this matter, no permission is needed for the office of the competent to involve external legal adviser,” the letter is.
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The letter came after Lander had encouraged the Adams administration to tighten a lawsuit or to authorize him to hire his own lawyers Sue Trump and Elon Musk, who leads the Ministry of Efficiency of the Government.
“Given the seriousness of the situation, we can no longer afford to waste more time. If the mayor prefers to spend his days promoting President Trump’s agenda instead of fighting for New Yorkers, then the legal Department allow me to do this, “Lander said in a statement on Friday.
“Restoring these funds is necessary, and any action, or non-action, which could continue the Trump government without a consequence, would set a dangerous precedent and make our city a target in the coming four years,” he added .
The withdrawal of FEMA funds from the New York City accounts happened on Tuesday and was first discovered by Lander the next day.
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“Let’s be crystal clear: this is highway robbery. Elon Musk, without legal authority, illegally seized federal funds of New Yorkers,” Lander said on Wednesday.
Musk claimed that Doge found a fema payment of $ 59 million New York City was used in luxury hotels to accommodate illegal migrants. Trump later repeated the statement of Musk and argued that “mass fraud” took place.
New York City received two separate subsidies during the BIDEN -Administration – one for $ 58.6 million and another for $ 21.9 million – when the city tried to pay migrants from home, many of whom were sent by Texas officials They were frustrated by the treatment of the Biden administration of the inflow of migrants who enter the US through the southern border.
The payments have been made under the Shelter and Services program that the congress last year appropriated $ 650 million to help local authorities respond to the migrant crisis.
Mayor Eric Adams of New York City leaves the federal court in Lower Manhattan on Friday 27 September 2024. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
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The FEMA -money, which was funded by American customs and border protection, paid $ 12.50 per night compensation for every hotel room. The city said that most hotels are used to accommodate migrants are not luxurious. The rest of the funds went to security, food and other services for migrants.
This came after the Ministry of Justice ordered officers of justice to drop their federal corruption case against Adams, which had been charged with accusation of fraud, bribery and requesting campaign contributions from foreigners. Some have expressed concern that Adams can be obliged to the president because his case has been withdrawn.
