NYC Council members call for Eric Adams' 'immediate' resignation after federal indictment: 'Unfit to lead'

A increasing fig of elected officials successful New York City person called connected embattled Mayor Eric Adams to resign successful the look of national transgression charges, saying helium is "unfit to service and lead."

In an indictment unsealed Thursday, national prosecutors charged Adams with 5 counts of bribery, ligament fraud, conspiracy and solicitation of amerciable overseas run donations. The quality followed a bid of national probes into the politician and respective of his apical aides.

"Since the archetypal of the scandals came out, the Mayor has been determined to ‘stay focused, nary distractions, and grind,’ claiming that everything helium does is for the radical of this City. But nary 1 tin beryllium focused connected this changeless watercourse of distractions: scandals, resignations, subpoenas, FBI raids, and present damning indictments dating backmost a decade," the NYC Progressive Caucus wrote successful a statement. 

"We person excessively galore pressing issues that request steady, honest, and forward-facing leadership. The lone happening he's grinding is our metropolis to a halt."

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams holds a property league astatine City Hall successful June.  (Adam Gray/Getty Images)

The city's progressive caucus, which includes 18 members, wrote that Adams' tenure included an "alarming level of governmental favoritism, akin to a strategy of patronage and cronyism we person not seen successful astir a century.

"This is simply a situation of his ain making, a reflection of mediocre decision-making, failed leadership, and disregard for the regularisation of instrumentality that helium expounds," it added. "No magnitude of scapegoating tin distract from the superior and thorough quality of the national investigation. Mayor Adams must resign."

New York City Mayor Eric Adams' attorney, Alex Spiro, speaks during a quality league extracurricular Gracie Mansion Thursday successful New York. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

New York City Council Member Robert Holden, who is portion of the conservative-leaning Common Sense Caucus, called for Adams' resignation, saying helium cannot "effectively pb with this unreality hanging implicit him."

"Sad time for NYC erstwhile a sitting politician is indicted connected national charges. While @NYCMayor is presumed guiltless until proven guilty, determination is nary mode helium tin efficaciously pb with this unreality hanging implicit him," Holden wrote connected X. "With the challenges we face, helium indispensable measurement down for the bully of New Yorkers."

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Council Member Linda Lee echoed Holden's thoughts, saying that portion Adams has the close to support himself against the charges, helium is "unfit to service and lead."

"Everyday New Yorkers should not person to interest themselves with this benignant of uncertainty and chaos that we are seeing from City Hall," Lee wrote successful a statement. "The Mayor is entitled to owed process and the close to support himself against these charges, but not to the detriment of the top metropolis successful the world. At this time, helium is unfit to service and pb and indispensable resign immediately."

New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a quality league extracurricular Gracie Mansion Thursday. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

Council Member Sandy Nurse targeted Adams' instrumentality and bid platform.

"Mayor Adams ran connected a ‘law and order’ platform. Throughout his tenure, helium ne'er missed a accidental to onslaught progressives and the Left, accusing america of being unserious astir assemblage safety and crime," Nurse said. "Meanwhile, his medication has been thing but a messiness of corruption, deceit, and dysfunction."

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"It is intolerable to govern a metropolis efficaciously amidst a changeless watercourse of resignations, scandals, and present indictments. And with the looming menace of different Trump presidency — which would beryllium catastrophic for New York City — we request enactment that is strong, honest, and focused connected solving our City's astir intractable problems. Above all, we request an Executive that puts the City supra him and his friends."

New York City Mayor Eric Adams attends a property league successful June.  (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

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The calls for Adams' resignation travel arsenic national prosecutors alleged connected Thursday that the 64-year-old illegally received overseas and firm run donations for a decennary successful speech for influence. 

Adams denied the allegations successful a video statement, saying immoderate charges filed against him are "entirely false, based connected lies" and insinuating that his disapproval of the Biden administration's disastrous borderline policies made him a people for retaliation.

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Fox News Digital's Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.