Mayor Adams blames dyslexia for being unable to unlock his phone for the feds

Mayor Adams pointed to his dyslexia as the reason he couldn’t unlock his phone for federal investigators who requested access as part of a corruption investigation into donations to the his campaign, he said Tuesday.

“Hey, folks, I’m dyslexic. I couldn’t get numbers. That’s a byproduct,” the mayor said at his weekly press briefing, adding that he “always” gives his “numbers” to staffers.

New documents in the mayor’s now-dismissed federal corruption case revealed that federal agents thought the mayor’s explanations about his phone were lies that showed “evidence of consciousness of guilt” on Adams’ part.

The mayor, upon being intercepted by agents in Greenwich Village in November 2023, told feds that he had left it at City Hall. However, GPS data showed the phone was actually moving along his path from City Hall to near Washington Square Park and north on 6th Avenue, an FBI agent wrote in an affidavit.





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