Pickering, in collusion with Hamilton — who hated Adams as much as Adams hated Hamilton — strove to make the Federalists a war party answerable to Hamilton, who had Napoleonic dreams of glory, hoping ...

Mr. Adams hired Mr. Pearson in 2022 as a senior adviser with a $243,000 salary, even though Mr. Pearson was at the time also working a job at a Queens casino as its vice president for public safety.