Mayor Adams has to admit that yes, Nets lobbied him to get private sector mandate changed

On Thursday, at his press conference at CitiField, Mayor Eric Adams said regarding changes in the private sector mandate, “I was not lobbied on this issue.”

However, reporters starting with Politico had the receipts ... from the city’s own lobbying office, no less. Back in February, the Nets agreed to pay Corey Johnson, the former president of the City Council, $18,000 a month, plus expenses, to lobby the city on “health care policy,” specifically the mayor’s executive order on the mandate.

So on Friday, Adams had to do an about-face.