Former New York City Buildings Commissioner Eric Ulrich was charged with accepting or soliciting more than $150,000 in bribes and benefits — ranging from Mets tickets to a custom suit, as the Manhattan district attorney unveiled a sweeping set of indictments.
A series of much-anticipated indictments unsealed in Manhattan Supreme Court Wednesday accused former New York City Buildings Commissioner Eric Ulrich of accepting or soliciting $150,000 in bribes – including season tickets to the Mets and a painting by the last surviving apprentice of Salvador Dali – by brazenly exploiting his elected and appointed government positions.
Eric Ulrich rose through the ranks of city government with modest momentum, first elected as a city councilman before Mayor Eric Adams appointed him a senior adviser and, finally, his commissioner of the Department of Buildings.
Former New York City buildings commissioner Eric Ulrich was charged Wednesday in five separate indictments with accepting more than $150,000 in bribes while serving in public roles.
Eric Ulrich, a confidante of Eric Adams who was also the mayor’s first Department of Buildings commissioner, orchestrated a brazen and long-running scheme to enrich himself in exchange for special treatment from city agencies, according to a series of indictments handed down on Wednesday.
