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Eric Adams: “You could do 20, 30 years.”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Interview with Mayor Eric Adams on Indictment and Immigration Challenges in New York City

Published | Video Starts at 41:13

He's heading my. My defense, and he's going to exercise every avenue to get justice. What's the potential penalty hanging over you? Oh, no, these are. This is real time. You could do 20, 30 years. You could do 30 years. Yes. We're taking flight upgrades. This is real. You wish you'd flown coach. In retrospect, you know, you can't live. You can't live. (41:13–41:16)

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Asserts the potential legal penalty he is facing could be 20 to 30 years.

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