NYC Mayor-elect Eric Adams is finding himself in some hot water after it was revealed by the New York Post that he was flown to Puerto Rico on bitcoin billionaire Brock Pierce’s private jet, despite claiming that his trip was on “my dollar, my dime and my time.”
Adams, who has said he would explore creating the Big Apple’s own cryptocurrency and pledged to take his first three paychecks in cryptocurrency, attended the SOMOS Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico after being flown on Pierce’s private Gulfstream jet, and then had dinner with Pierce and the territory’s governor, Pedro Pierluisi.
When asked about how he got to Puerto Rico, Adams said he had paid for the trip himself.
“Before the question is asked, I paid my own way,” the Post quotes Adams as saying. “I learned the best way to tell people to mind their business is to come out your pocket and cut your own check, so I’m here on my time. It’s on my dollar, my dime and my time.”
A spokesman for Adams told Politico that Adams “paid for a seat on a private flight through a travel agent, and he flew commercial on his return trip,” but did not provide receipts to back the claim.
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Another mayor that will basically be a lobbyist for the real estate, developers and financial sectors. The regular idiot 9-5 person as usual gets fooled.
New York Post New York Shmost. Since when are they trusted to tell the truth? I would say that the matter is still under investigation, because there is nothing final and trustworthy about the New York Post.
When I saw a story about a week ago that Adams wanted to support a bitcoin exchange, and that he would take some salary in bitcoin, I suspected, without any direct evidence, that he was doing some political favors for a donor with a stake in bitcoin. It is starting to look as if my suspicions are correct. I hope the mayor-elect does good things for the city, but we will have to wait and see, and watch closely. (I did not vote for Adam.)
I have not heard a coherent argument for the need for bitcoin, other than the ability to hide income from governmental authorities. That is valuable to tax cheats, drug dealers and paranoiacs, but I don’t know who else needs bitcoin.
to huju – until your comment, I didn’t realize why Bitcoin became so phenomenally popular. Now, the only wonder is why it is not the only currency used in certain northern suburbs.