New York City Mayor Eric Adams expected to face federal charges  

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is expected to face federal charges by prosecutors out of the Southern District of New York as soon as tomorrow, two sources familiar with the matter said Wednesday night.

The Adams administration is reeling from a series of high-level resignations amid at least four federal probes. 

Adams has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. 

One of the investigations is believed to be focused on whether Adams’ mayoral campaign conspired with the Turkish government to receive illegal campaign contributions from foreign sources. As part of that probe, the FBI last year searched a home in Brooklyn belonging to Adams’ chief fundraiser. 

Federal investigators have also been looking into whether Adams pressured the city’s former fire commissioner to approve a new building housing the Turkish consulate despite safety concerns. 

Adams was still Brooklyn’s borough president when, shortly after winning the Democratic mayoral primary in 2021, he reached out to then-fire commissioner Daniel Nigro, according to sources familiar with the matter. Adams encouraged Nigro to evaluate a request from the Turkish government to use the building, which had not yet opened because fire department officials had refused to sign off on the safety of its occupancy.

Adams’ phones were seized as part of the inquiry, and FBI agents have questioned Nigro as a witness at least twice, sources familiar with the matter previously told NBC News. (Nigro has declined to comment.)

Earlier this month, federal investigators searched homes and seized phones belonging to multiple top officials close to Adams. Police Commissioner Edward Caban, who was among those whose phone was seized, resigned on Sept. 12. 

Caban’s twin brother, James Caban, a former police officer who owns a nightclub security business, also had his phone seized. Federal investigators are looking into whether James Caban was paid by bars and clubs in Midtown Manhattan and Queens to act as a police liaison, and if those clubs were then afforded special treatment by local precincts, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The Adams administration is also facing a public corruption investigation and another federal probe that led to a search of homes belonging to Adams’ former director of Asian affairs.  

The mayor’s indictment leaves the city government in a dire predicament, said Douglas Muzzio, a longtime Baruch College political science professor who retired last year.

“Who’s in charge? What is the policy direction?” Muzzio said. “With so many people having already resigned, city agencies are, in a sense, rudderless.”