Eric Adams slammed for ‘pulling the rug’ on new NYC crypto coin, costing investors millions

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Former New York Mayor Eric Adams is facing blistering accusations from the cryptocurrency community after a digital token he helped promote collapsed in value, triggering what many traders are calling a “rug pull” that wiped out millions of dollars in investor funds. 

Adams, a longtime booster of digital assets who once touted making New York a “crypto capital,” unveiled the NYC token last week in Times Square as a Solana-based meme coin.

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