Feds Snatched NYC Mayor’s Phones and iPad in Widening Probe

FBI agents stopped Mayor Eric Adams on the street this week and confiscated his electronic devices, just days after the bureau raided the home of his top fundraiser, The New York Times reported Friday.

The Times described an encounter in which g-men approached Adams on the sidewalk, requested his NYPD detail step off, and boarded the mayor’s official SUV with him, where they took custody of two phones and a tablet, as authorized in a new federal warrant.

The move marks the latest escalation in the government’s investigation of the Adams campaign following the FBI sweep of consultant Brianna Suggs’ residence. The federal government has since returned Adams’ devices.

Read more at The Daily Beast.