Mayor Adams, in his first public appearance since Ingrid Lewis-Martin's latest indictments, calls Jacques Jiha, his budget director, "Jacques Maurice" nine times before someone nudges him. "Jacques Jiha, I'm sorry," he says, adding that Maurice is a "mentor" of his.
Who is Maurice?
Adams is at Gracie Mansion, where Lewis-Martin allegedly accepted free catering as bribes, for a Haitian heritage event. Jiha is of Haitian descent, and Adams kept calling him Maurice while praising his work as budget director.
City Hall's transcript of the mayor's butchering of his budget director's last name (his press office corrected all nine references to "Jacques Maurice"):
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