New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s little brother received another salary decrease on Thursday, though the cut was much more drastic than the one announced earlier this month.
Bernard Adams, 56, will now only receive an annual salary of $1 for his adviser role in the New York Police Department, officials said. Eric Adams asked the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board on Tuesday to approve the pay and adviser role, a move more in line with how previous administrations have hired relatives, according to a COIB letter reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
COIB stated that Bernard Adams ought to receive a $1 salary “for the sole purpose of making Bernard Adams a City employee.” The board also said in serving his new position as an adviser that Bernard Adams will still be subject to the same integrity safeguards as other public servants, including “the requirements and obligations of the City’s conflicts of interest law and annual disclosure law.”
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Bernard Adams’s advisory duties will “not involve the supervision of public servants or any command authority over NYPD personnel,” according to the COIB ruling. Records recovered by the New York Post also showed Adams will still have his $51,665 police pension, which was active as of Thursday.
In early January, it was reported the mayor had selected his younger brother to serve as an NYPD deputy commissioner with a $242,000 salary. A few days later, after concerns of nepotism surfaced, Adams announced his brother would be serving in the lesser role of executive director of mayoral security with a salary of $210,000.
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Adams, who served as a captain in the NYPD, has made public safety a hallmark of his mayoral administration, advocating increased policing while supporting reforms to the NYPD in his inaugural remarks on Jan. 1 and on the campaign trail.
