Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) argued that the Justice Department could have ulterior motives with the recent indictment against New York Mayor Eric Adams, citing how old most of the crimes he is charged with are.

The 57-page indictment charged Adams with numerous counts ranging from federal program bribery to wire fraud, all of which could land him up to 45 years in prison if convicted. Tenney, despite being critical of the Democratic mayor’s “terrible” policies, questioned why his charges were not prosecuted eight years earlier and suggested it was because Adams’s party needed him to become mayor at the time.

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