Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small once again finds himself at the center of controversy.

Addressing the public for the first time today since search warrants were carried out at his home late last week, small disclosed little detail, but confirmed it's part of an ongoing investigation into what he called a family matter.

Ted Goldberg has the latest.

We're not going to entertain you because if I wanted to entertain clowns, buy a ticket to the circus.

AC Mayor Marty Small didn't appreciate his home, turning into what he described as a three ring circus last week when police served multiple search warrants at his home.

Mayor Small says his family has been under investigation for several months.

We're dealing with a family matter.

We've been dealing with DCP, who has been excellent.

We're you know, we're going through family therapy and all.

This entire investigation arose from nothing more than a personal and emotional family.

Matter.

Small and his attorney, Ed Jacobs, say it's not a criminal matter.

The search happened hours after the principal of Atlantic City High School was arrested for failing to report child abuse.

Small didn't elaborate much on why his home was searched and offered few details as to what the investigation is about.

There's no book and no course that we took in college to show you how to be a parent and more importantly, how to deal with the struggles of raising teenagers.

Speculation reached a fever pitch over the weekend, leading small to address some of the more salacious rumors regarding his family.

My daughter was pregnant with twins and I beat the out of her so bad that I killed the babies.

My daughter is not pregnant with twins.

As I say, she's never been pregnant.

The search warrants have nothing to do with Mayor Small's important public matters.

To law enforcement officials with guns, rifles, battering rams and more.

A scene to our proximity.

This was done in a very aggressive and a very public manner.

Small says the warrants were served aggressively to embarrass him.

It is political and it's racial because people don't like the fact that this mayor has given minorities opportunities that they've never had in city hall.

The prosecutor's office sent a statement saying the search was conducted appropriately.

Jacobs said Small's home and cars were searched, but wouldn't answer when asked multiple times if children's phones were taken.

Was that done here?

And are you going to move to quash anything they took?

All right.

Thank you for attending.

We have no further comment.

And are accepting no further questions.

They may not be accepting further questions, but questions are still coming for a mayor who's been no stranger to controversy while leading his city.

In Atlantic City, I'm Ted Goldberg.

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