New York City: Mayor coy on whether he warned ex-Buildings boss of gambling probe, says he won’t be ‘distracted’

Monday, July 31, 2023 3:47 PM
  • Chris Sommerfeldt , New York Daily News

Mayor Adams did not explicitly deny Monday he told ex-Buildings Department Commissioner Eric Ulrich last year to be careful about using cellphones for sensitive conversations months before it became known that Ulrich was under investigation by the Manhattan district attorney. Adams instead said he felt like he was watching a mafia movie while reading an exclusive Daily News report from last week on his alleged warning to Ulrich.

“I was reading that article, I felt like it was a redo of ‘Goodfellas,’” Adams said at a City Hall press conference, a reference to Martin Scorsese’s classic 1990 mob flick.