Mayor Eric Adams and the New York Times have gone to war over claims he lied about carrying a weathered photo of his friend and fallen NYPD comrade in his wallet for decades.
that a portrait of Officer Robert Venable that Adams says he has long carried with him isn’t legit — and is instead just a printed-off Google image that was doctored to make it appear old.
The crux of the Times’ story, based on a person familiar with the so-called ordeal, is that staffers inside the Mayor’s office were allegedly pressured into manipulating the photo of Venable in January last year — just days after Adams first publicly revealed he carried the tiny portrait. “While yesterday’s initial inquiry mentioned a photo, the crux of this request and all initial questions in writing focused on the Times’ claim that there was no real relationship between the two former officers,” a statement from the Mayor’s office said.
“Over 30 years ago, after Officer Venable’s murder, then-Officer Adams made a copy of a photo published of Officer Venable from an NYPD Transit News Bulletin — a document he still has to this day,” Levy said. “I still think about Robert,” Adams said at a press conference in January last year. “I keep a picture of Robert in my wallet.”
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