New York City Mayor Eric Adams has insisted the the project cost no more than $650,000, but City Comptroller Brad Lander predicts the project may have cost millions.
Congressional Democrats from New York are distancing themselves from the Manhattan district attorney's "stay-out-of-jail-free" policy that downgrades some felonies and abandons prison sentences for other crimes, a move that is wildly unpopular with city police and business leaders.
The lawsuit, spearheaded by Staten Island Borough President Vito Fosella and New York GOP Chairman Nick Langworthy, charges that the city’s recently-enacted noncitizen voting law “directly conflicts“ with the state Constitution, which holds that “every citizen” has the right to vote.