News in brief

By The Associated Press

Feds charge

NYC mayor

NEW YORK | New York City Mayor Eric Adams gas vowed to stay in office after federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment accusing him of letting Turkish officials and businesspeople buy his influence with illegal campaign contributions and lavish overseas trips.

The five-count indictment made public Thursday outlines a trail of alleged corruption that prosecutors say started when the Democratic former police captain served as an elected official in Brooklyn and continued through his mayoral administration.

Prosecutors say Adams received campaign contributions from straw donors, some of which helped him qualify for more than $10 million in matching public campaign funds. Adams says he’s innocent and that he won’t resign.

Rudy Giuliani disbarred in D.C.

WASHINGTON | Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was disbarred in Washington on Thursday, months after he lost his law license in New York for pursuing false claims that then-President Donald Trump made about his 2020 presidential election loss.

The brief ruling from Washington D.C.’s appeals court said Giuliani did not respond to an order to explain why he should not be disbarred in Washington after he was in New York last summer.

Ted Goodman, a spokesperson for Giuliani, called the decision “an absolute travesty and a total miscarriage of justice.” Giuliani has argued that he believed the claims he was making on behalf of the Trump campaign were true.

—From AP reports