Eric Adams’s friends keep having their phones taken away

The list of people being investigated by federal agents includes two deputy mayors, the schools chancellor and a former police commissioner, who resigned on September 12th. The list of federal agencies poking around includes the Justice Department, the FBI and the IRS. The city’s own Department of Investigation is busy too. No indictments have come down, and no one has been accused or charged with any wrongdoing, but as federal agents raid the homes and scoop up the phones of top officials, questions are multiplying about some of the people Mr Adams has chosen to help him manage America’s biggest city. The investigations are not related to one another, but the same cannot be said of all those caught up in them.