{"id":94,"date":"2023-11-15T22:26:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T22:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/table-of-success.local\/?p=94"},"modified":"2023-12-18T02:32:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T02:32:33","slug":"bernard-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tableofsuccess.mysites.io\/bernard-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide\">The mayor tried to get his younger brother Bernard Adams a cushy six-figure job, only to be foiled by the City&#8217;s ethics board\u2014but Bernard&#8217;s wife, Sharon, was appointed to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecity.nyc\/2023\/06\/08\/eric-adams-sharon-bernard-city-job\/\">$150,000 job as a &#8220;special initiative specialist&#8221;<\/a> at the Department of Education.&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator alignwide has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Formerly<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>NYPD officer, 1986-2006<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Parking administrator, Virginia Commonwealth University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sales associate, LegalShield<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Special adviser for mayoral security<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Currently<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Unknown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>Of Eric Adams&#8217;s five siblings, the mayor appears to be the closest to Bernard, his younger brother who calls the mayor his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2022\/01\/07\/nyc-mayor-adams-appoints-younger-brother-as-deputy-nypd-commissioner-in-move-that-raises-conflict-of-interest-questions\/\">&#8220;role model&#8221;<\/a> and joked at his election night party that they are &#8220;twins separated at birth.&#8221; Another similarity:both of them were in the NYPD, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.50-a.org\/officer\/XS6E\">Bernard for 20 years<\/a> (though he doesn&#8217;t list his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.50-a.org\/officer\/XS6E\">tenure with New York&#8217;s Finest<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bernard-adams-b8484b73\">his LinkedIn<\/a>). Bernard even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2022\/01\/07\/nyc-mayor-adams-appoints-younger-brother-as-deputy-nypd-commissioner-in-move-that-raises-conflict-of-interest-questions\/\">told the New York Daily News<\/a> that when he had doubts about his choice to join the NYPD, Eric walked with him on one of his first nights on the beat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After being elected, Eric compelled Bernard to leave Virginia\u2014where he and his wife, Sharon, moved after Bernard\u2019s 2006 retirement from the NYPD\u2014and his job as a university parking administrator. Back in New York City Eric had a job lined up for his baby bro.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Days into the mayor&#8217;s tenure, the New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/07\/adams-taps-younger-brother-bernard-as-a-deputy-nypd-commissioner\/\">reported<\/a> that even before he took office, &nbsp;the mayor-elect had tapped Bernard to be the NYPD&#8217;s deputy commissioner for governmental affairs, which would put him in charge of not only his brother&#8217;s security detail, but that of other elected officials. The Post noted that the role typically comes with a cushy annual salary of around $242,000. Shortly after this act of nepotism was publicly revealed, City officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/12\/nyregion\/bernard-adams-brother-mayor.html\">then said that <em>actually<\/em><\/a>, Bernard wasn&#8217;t a deputy commissioner, but the NYPD&#8217;s &#8220;executive director of mayoral security,&#8221; and that his salary would be $210,000.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Personal security\u2014my life, my life\u2014I want in the hands of my brother with his 20-year law enforcement experience,&#8221; the mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/12\/nyregion\/bernard-adams-brother-mayor.html\">said at the time<\/a>. &#8220;He has the police experience, but he also has the personal experience. He knows his brother, and he\u2019s going to keep his brother safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unsurprisingly, the City&#8217;s Conflicts of Interest Board, whom the mayor had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/new-york\/albany\/whiteboard\/2022\/01\/13\/adams-pledges-to-follow-ethics-board-ruling-on-nypd-job-for-his-brother-1405609\">neglected to notify<\/a> of his intention to appoint his brother, quickly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/27\/nyregion\/eric-adams-brother-bernard.html\">shot that idea down<\/a>, forcing Bernard to instead take a job as a &#8220;special adviser for mayoral security&#8221; with a salary of just $1. No City officials would report to him, and he\u2019d have no command over NYPD officers. After about a year of working for his brother, Bernard <a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/local-news\/mayor-adams-brother-stepping-down-as-security-adviser\/\">stepped down<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/local-news\/mayor-adams-brother-stepping-down-as-security-adviser\/\">an interview with PIX11 News<\/a>, responding to criticisms that this sequence of events demonstrated &#8220;stunning nepotism,&#8221; as Reinvent Albany&#8217;s John Kaehny put it, Bernard said he didn&#8217;t &#8220;listen to the noise.&#8221; He told PIX11 that he was moving on from his $1-a-year job because he had hand-selected Eric&#8217;s security detail andwas satisfied that his brother was in safe hands. Maybe he was just tired. \u201cWorking with the mayor is a 24-hour job,\u201d Bernard said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>End of story, back to Virginia for Bernard, right? Nope. A week after he stepped down, his wife Sharon was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecity.nyc\/2023\/06\/08\/eric-adams-sharon-bernard-city-job\/\">appointed to a $150,000 job as a &#8220;special initiative specialist&#8221; at the Department of Education<\/a>. On that same day, she left her position as a teacher in the Richmond Public Schools system in Virginia, a job that paid her under $73,000, according to a Richmond official who spoke to the CITY. DOE spokesperson Nathaniel Styer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/newyork\/2023\/6\/8\/23754067\/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-sister-in-law-education-department-job\/\">told Chalkbeat<\/a> Sharon&#8217;s new role involved &#8220;training and coaching school staff on systems meant to support students academically and emotionally.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Styer added that Sharon applied for the job and was interviewed among other candidates, noting that she &#8220;exceeds the qualifications for this role, and immediately added value to a critical team that supports schools.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, what is Bernard up to these days? It&#8217;s unclear (he didn&#8217;t respond to our messages, and the DOE didn&#8217;t respond to our questions about Sharon) but he has a backup: In Virginia, both he and Sharon got involved with LegalShield, a multilevel marketing company that provides prepaid legal services and identity theft protection. Their performance with LegalShield earned them a spot in the MLM&#8217;s &#8220;Performance Club,&#8221;and in LegalShield&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/meliafamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BMW-Guidlines.pdf\">BMW Program<\/a>,&#8221; an &#8220;incentive program designed to reward associates who continually and consistently produce a quality book of business.&#8221; (In the program, one isn&#8217;t given a BMW, but rather, a monthly $500\u00a0 &#8220;Performance Club bonus&#8221; one can use to buy or lease a BMW.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LegalShield Performance Club Bmw Recipients for 2012 HD (A EM7 Film Production*)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bv2Hz5_4q38?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>Fabian Taylor, a parking officer supervised by Bernard, told Hell Gate in a phone call that at VCU, Bernard got Taylor involved with LegalShield. &#8220;He was an awesome guy. He was an awesome supervisor,&#8221; Taylor said. &#8220;And that&#8217;s why, when he told me about the opportunity with LegalShield, I trusted him. And he was right, it worked out pretty well for us.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taylor told us he couldn&#8217;t say how many other people Bernard recruited to LegalShield, but said he &#8220;went on a few vacations because of it&#8221; and &#8220;ended up getting a free BMW out of it.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It was super awesome. He helped me out a lot,&#8221; Taylor said. &#8220;He let me drive his BMW before I got mine. I can&#8217;t say anything bad about him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-content-justification-left is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-layout-4 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator alignwide has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Still hungry?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/07\/adams-taps-younger-brother-bernard-as-a-deputy-nypd-commissioner\/\">Eric Adams taps younger brother Bernard as a deputy police commissioner <\/a>| The New York Post<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/27\/nyregion\/eric-adams-brother-bernard.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/27\/nyregion\/eric-adams-brother-bernard.html\">Eric Adams Can Hire His Brother, but at Salary of $1, Not $210,000<\/a> | The New York Times<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mayor Adams\u2019 brother stepping down as security adviser | PIX11 News<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 Sister-In-Law Landed $150,000 City Government Gig | The CITY<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/meliafamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BMW-Guidlines.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/meliafamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BMW-Guidlines.pdf\">LegalShield BMW Program Guidelines<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Last updated: 12\/18\/2023<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Younger brother Bernard Adams couldn&#8217;t make it past the City&#8217;s ethics board\u2014but his wife, Sharon, sure did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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