“Earlier today, one of our officers was shot while protecting our subway system,” Adams told the public, neglecting to mention that the shooting was done by another of those officers. A bullet went through a bystander victim’s brain, his family announced, and he faced a terrible prognosis.

Corruption investigations are nothing new in New York politics. But Adams is in an increasingly precarious political position, and an indictment, depending on its target, could send him over the edge.

Several federal corruption inquiries have reached into the world of Mayor Eric Adams of New York, who faces re-election next year. Here is a closer look at how people with ties to Adams are related to the inquiries.

There has been no New York mayor in the past half-century like Eric Adams. No one this flamboyant, this brazen, this imperiled, and this unpopular. Last week, federal agents searched the homes of multiple senior officials in his administration,