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NYC Mayor Eric Adams charged with taking bribes from overseas sources

Editorial Board Published September 26, 2024
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New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams was indicted Thursday on costs that he took unlawful marketing campaign contributions and bribes from overseas nationals in trade for favors that included serving to Turkish officers get hearth security approvals for a brand new diplomatic constructing within the metropolis.

Adams, a former police officer, faces conspiracy, wire fraud, and bribery costs in a five-count indictment that describes a decade-long path of crimes.

The U.S. lawyer’s workplace in Manhattan alleges within the indictment that Adams “compounded his gains” from the unlawful contributions by gaming the town’s matching funds program, which offers a beneficiant match for small-dollar donations. His marketing campaign acquired greater than $10,000 in matching funds on account of the false certifications, in keeping with the indictment.

Adams allegedly “solicited and demanded” bribes, together with free and closely discounted luxurious journey advantages from a Turkish official, the indictment alleges, noting that the official was looking for Adams’ assist pertaining to laws of the Turkish consulate in Manhattan.

FBI brokers entered the mayor’s official residence and seized his telephone early Thursday, hours earlier than the indictment was made public.

“Federal agents appeared this morning at Gracie Mansion in an effort to create a spectacle (again) and take Mayor Adams phone (again),” Adams’ lawyer, Alex Spiro, stated in an announcement hours earlier than the indictment was made public. “They send a dozen agents to pick up a phone when we would have happily turned it in.”

In a video speech launched Wednesday night time, Adams vowed to fights any costs in opposition to him, claiming he had been made a “target” in a case “based on lies.”

“I will fight these injustices with every ounce of my strength and my spirit,” he stated.

The indictment caps off a unprecedented few weeks in New York Metropolis, as federal investigators have honed in on members of Adams’ interior circle, producing a drum-beat of raids, subpoenas and high-level resignations which have thrust Metropolis Corridor into disaster.


Cops stand exterior Gracie Mansion, the official residence of New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams, on Thursday.

In a video speech launched Wednesday night time, Adams vowed to combat any costs in opposition to him, claiming he had been made a “target” in a case “based on lies.”

The indictment caps off a unprecedented few weeks in New York Metropolis, as federal investigators have homed in on members of Adams’ interior circle, producing a drum-beat of raids, subpoenas, and high-level resignations.

Federal prosecutors are believed to be main a number of, separate inquiries involving Adams and his senior aides, relations of these aides, marketing campaign fundraising, and potential affect peddling of the police and hearth departments.

Within the final two weeks alone, the town’s police commissioner and head of the varsity system have introduced their resignations.

FBI brokers had seized Adams’ digital units almost a yr in the past as a part of an investigation centered, no less than partly, on marketing campaign contributions and Adams’ interactions with the Turkish authorities. As a result of the costs have been sealed, it was unknown whether or not they handled those self same issues.

In early September, federal investigators seized units from his police commissioner, faculties chancellor, two deputy mayors, and different trusted confidants each out and in of Metropolis Corridor.

All have denied wrongdoing.

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