NYC's rich and powerful flock to Cuomo with cash -- and job offers to lure Adams out of the race

Some of New York’s most powerful billionaires are again lining up behind Andrew Cuomo’s bid to become mayor, with pledges to pump more cash into his campaign and engage in efforts to help Mayor Adams find a lucrative private sector job that might induce him to exit the race for City Hall, the Daily News has learned.

The multipronged efforts — which hit a fever pitch this weekend — come as advisers to President Trump have also engaged in talks to offer Adams a job in Trump’s administration, ostensibly to help clear the mayoral field for Cuomo.

On the private sector side, a job at Related Companies, one of the city’s largest real estate developers, has been floated to Adams as a potential off-ramp for him to drop out, sources familiar with the matter said.

The pushes to get Adams a new job are aimed at maximizing Cuomo’s chances in November’s mayoral election as he faces a polling deficit running as an independent against Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, a socialist who has alarmed the business community with proposed tax hikes on the rich.





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