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A former aide to New York Mayor Eric Adams is charged with destroying evidence as top deputy quits

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NEW YORK (AP) — A former New York City official was charged Tuesday with witness tampering and destroying evidence as a federal investigation led to Mayor Eric Adams’ bribery indictment. Federal prosecutors allege that Mohamed Bahi told a businessman and campaign donors to lie to the FBI. They also accuse him of deleting an encrypted messaging app from his cell phone as FBI agents searched his home. Prosecutors said Bahi had used the Signal app to communicate with Adams. Bahi resigned Monday as a community affairs liaison. The mayor told a news conference on Tuesday that he would “never tell anyone to do anything illegal.”

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