How Eric Adams Started Mentoring a Con Man

The mayor’s friends and allies have puzzled over his relationship with Lamor Whitehead, a fraudster Brooklyn church leader.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/how-eric-adams-started-mentoring-a-con-man

Bruan, who was already negotiating Abdullah’s surrender with the N.Y.P.D., believes that Whitehead’s intrusion alarmed the authorities, prompting officers to pounce on Abdullah, guns drawn, outside a Legal Aid office downtown, where he had gone to meet with Bruan before surrendering. After Abdullah was taken away, Whitehead got into an argument with Bruan. “Stay away from my client,” she told him, to which Whitehead had responded, “What did you say, you dumb bitch?”