By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-26 15:43:41 | Updated at 2024-10-01 04:27:15
4 days ago
Historic federal indictment against Mayor Adams claims he took $10M in illegal donations, free luxury travel, ritzy perks
The New York Post ^ | 09/26/2024 | Craig McCarthy et al
Posted on 09/26/2024 8:30:17 AM PDT by thegagline
Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted on charges he allegedly took $10 million in illegal campaign contributions and bribes — including free flights and ritzy perks — from foreign nationals in exchange for favors, according to a bombshell federal indictment unsealed by Manhattan prosecutors Thursday.
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“In 2014, Eric Adams, the defendant, became Brooklyn Borough President. Thereafter, for nearly a decade, Adams sought and accepted improper valuable benefits, such as luxury international travel, including from wealthy foreign businesspeople and at least one Turkish government official seeking to gain influence over him,” the 57-page indictment charges.
“As Adams’s prominence and power grew, his foreign-national benefactors sought to cash in on their corrupt relationships with him, particularly when, in 2021, it became clear that Adams would become New York City’s mayor,” ***
“Adams agreed, providing favorable treatment in exchange for the illicit benefits he received.”
*** Prior to the indictment coming down, sources had revealed the charges were likely connected to allegations the Turkish government had illegally funneled money into Adams’ mayoral campaign in exchange for approval of the Turkish consulate in Manhattan.
“Eric Adams the defendant, sought and accepted illegal campaign contributions in the form of “nominee” or “straw” contributions, meaning that the true contributors conveyed their money through nominal donors, who falsely certified they were contributing their own money,” the indictment states.
“By smuggling their contributions to Adams through U.S.-based straw donors, Adams’s overseas contributors defeated federal laws that serve to prevent foreign influence on U.S. elections.” *** He also claimed he was being targeted for criticizing the Harris-Biden administration over its handling of the migrant crisis that’s wrecked the Big Apple.***
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; democrats; tammanyhall
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1 posted on 09/26/2024 8:30:17 AM PDT by thegagline
To: thegagline
Exactly. He stepped off the plantation.
2 posted on 09/26/2024 8:32:48 AM PDT by Blueflag (To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
To: thegagline
Is it too late for Eric Adams to legally change his last name to Biden?
🤔
3 posted on 09/26/2024 8:33:09 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
To: thegagline
Weird how many liberal DemonRATS are having problems holding on to their elected moneymaking gigs.
4 posted on 09/26/2024 8:36:34 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Jamaican/Injun "immigration" plan. Dilute and pollute until America is a third world sewer..)
To: thegagline
He didn’t share and set aside 10% for the “Big Guys”
5 posted on 09/26/2024 8:37:41 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
To: thegagline
Surprise, surprise, surprise....this is what the US gets everywhere we have “affirmative action” leadership. Keep this up and we’ll be competitive with Rhodesia, Niger, Angola, and South Africa. Meanwhile we whiteys will be put in concentration camps. Wake up people! The majority of them wish us dead; not all of them but the majority of them on the right side of the Bell Curve do. Criticize me for generalities but I’ve worked a riot with them and it is quite evident.
6 posted on 09/26/2024 8:38:16 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
To: Blueflag
Eric Adams did not kill himself.
7 posted on 09/26/2024 8:38:23 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
To: thegagline
Those laws are for white people.
8 posted on 09/26/2024 8:38:45 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (.You will suffer from one: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret. )
To: thegagline
I absolutely believe he did everything he’s being accused of......and I bet there’s even more we’ll never know about
9 posted on 09/26/2024 8:39:11 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: thegagline
The administration was fine with him until he got uppity
10 posted on 09/26/2024 8:40:02 AM PDT by william clark (A man who is unwilling to be proven wrong has little regard for truth.)
To: thegagline
11 posted on 09/26/2024 8:40:17 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
To: thegagline
I wish Freeper would stop making excuses for this corrupt loser.
To: thegagline
It’s not that he took any illegal donations, it’s who he took them from.
13 posted on 09/26/2024 8:42:52 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
To: Leaning Right
He can identify as trans, wear a dress and not only will the charges be dropped, “she” will be given her own show on MSNBC.
14 posted on 09/26/2024 8:42:58 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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