This is the beginning of Eric Adams’ fall from power as New York mayor | Ross Barkan

For the first time in the modern history of New York City, a sitting mayor has been indicted.

Eric Adams will now know the fate of Donald Trump - to be indicted and possibly convicted in a Manhattan courtroom. Damian Williams, the US attorney for the southern district, has unsealed a 57-page indictment that accused Adams of performing favors for Turkish foreign nationals after accepting more than $100,000 in international plane tickets and accommodations, as well as soliciting illegal donations from them. These donations generated public matching funds for his mayoral campaign in 2021.

This indictment, it should be noted, was related to one of at least four possible federal probes into the Adams administration. His police commissioner and top counsel have already resigned, and his schools chancellor - FBI agents seized his phone recently - announced that he is stepping down at the end of the year.

City hall is in chaos. All of this, given Adams' history, was arguably foreseeable.

Before Adams was a mayor, he was a Brooklyn borough president and state senator who courted controversy. Corruption clouds followed him. Until now, he was never indicted. Until now, he always found a way to survive.

If he and Trump have much that separates them - Adams, a Democrat, is a child of the Black working class - there are also striking commonalities. Both grew up in Queens, an outer borough of New York City. Both talk tough, revel in political combat and enjoy, even more, playing the martyr. In their political and personal conduct, they are remarkably brazen.

They do not give in. They do not apologize.