Report: NYC Mayor Eric Adams Indicted After Federal Corruption Investigation
Adams “will become the first New York City mayor to be criminally charged while in office.”
The New York Times reported that New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted after a federal corruption investigation, according to “people with knowledge of the matter.”
Adams has been mayor for three years.
From The New York Times:
The indictment remained sealed on Wednesday night, and it was unclear what charge or charges Mr. Adams will face. But when they are made public, he will become the first New York City mayor to be criminally charged while in office.
The indictment promised to reverberate across the nation’s largest city and beyond, plunging Mr. Adams’s embattled administration further into chaos just months before he is set to face challengers in a hotly contested mayoral primary.
Representatives of Mr. Adams and his campaign said they had no immediate comment.
The FBI and federal prosecutors began investigating Adams two years ago, concentrating on his 2021 mayoral campaign.
Authorities alleged that Adams “pressured New York Fire Department officials to sign off on the Turkish government’s new high-rise consulate in Manhattan despite safety concerns with the building” weeks after he won the Democratic mayoral primary:
Mr. Adams’ intervention paved the way for the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose fondness for massive building projects was well known in Turkey, to preside over the grand opening of the $300 million, 35-story tower on his September 2021 visit to New York for the U.N. General Assembly, despite numerous flaws in its fire safety system, according to the people familiar with the matter and city records. The skyscraper in the center of New York City reflected Turkey’s “increased power,” Mr. Erdogan said at its ribbon-cutting.
The federal criminal inquiry has focused at least in part on whether Mr. Adams’s 2021 campaign conspired with the Turkish government, including its consulate general in New York, to illegally funnel foreign money into its coffers, according to a search warrant obtained by The New York Times for an F.B.I. search this month of the home of the mayor’s chief fund-raiser.
At the time, Adams served as Brooklyn borough president, a ceremonial job that certainly did not extend to Manhattan.
The public found out in late 2023:
The inquiry remained secret until late last year, when an F.B.I. search of his chief fund-raiser’s home thrust it into public view. After searching the home of the fund-raiser, Brianna Suggs, last November, federal investigators left with two laptop computers, three iPhones and a manila folder labeled “Eric Adams.” Ms. Suggs has not been accused of wrongdoing.
Days later, in a dramatic scene on a Greenwich Village street, F.B.I. agents told the mayor’s security detail to step aside, climbed into his S.U.V. with him and seized his electronic devices.
Mayor Eric Adams will reportedly be arrested as early as tomorrow after being indicted.
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34 indictments?
When he was elected Bongino, who knows the guy from NYPD days, warned that he was an unqualified sleeze more interested in getting in front of a camera than being competent at his job
That really doesn’t make him much different from any politician, from HOA board member right up through the presidency.
In that election he was positioned as the sane candidate, who wasn’t a race hustler or actively pro-crime. Having a memory longer than a few months, I knew his entire career had been built on race hustling, so I dismissed that part, but being actually against crime was a big plus in that election, because most of the serious candidates were for crime.
If I recall correctly there were only three serious candidates who were not pro-crime: Adams, Yang, and Kathryn Garcia, who was the D establishment candidate — left, but not so left as to frighten the horses.
I knew Adams was a phony, but Yang was one too, and if the establishment was for Garcia that ruled her out. Since it was preferential voting, I gave my first preference to Art Chang, who I thought was the least bad of the bunch but had absolutely no chance of winning. Then I put Yang and Adams second and third, I don’t remember in what order, and Garcia fourth because at least she wasn’t pro-crime.
In my role as a poll worker, an old lady asked for help; she knew whom she wanted to vote for, but had forgotten his name. She could only identify him as “the Chinese fellow”. The thing is there were two Chinese names on the ballot, Yang and Chang. So I asked her which of those two she meant, and luckily she remembered that it was Yang. Of course it was, because Chang wasn’t in the debates, and as far as I recall wasn’t even on TV at all, since he seemed to have a budget of about $500. So we were able to help her in good conscience and she went off and voted for him.
DEI are especially likely to be charged for criminal activity, generally not smart enough to get away with the crime..
Another New York City Democrat major accused of corruption; somewhere Boss Tweed is smiling.
That was my first thought.
“Adams “will become the first New York City mayor to be criminally charged while in office.”
Theres no way that statement should be right. But it probably is.
Odd how Democrats are shielded from accountability as long as they play ball.
I wonder who’s bowl of Wheaties he pissed in to get the Biden-Harris-Garland DOJ after the Democratic mayor of NYC like this?
I have the same question. Was it his complaining about NYC being overwhelmed by illegals?
He was. He went for sanctuary citizen criticizing everyone who didn’t want to be invaded by illegals as racists to railing against Abbott for sending them there to flat out not wanting illegals dumped in his lap.
In this day and age, it is a bowl of Froot Loops.
Wake me when he’s installed in Rikers Island beach resort and Finest Kind Prison.
Federal charges, so no Rikers. MDC in Brooklyn. But that won’t happen either, because there’s no reason he wouldn’t get bail.
Someone please explain, how does that get downvotes? Does someone seriously think that federal prisoners are housed at Rikers?! Or doubt that he qualifies for bail?!
And it’s not people automatically downvoting everything I wrote, because not everything I write gets this treatment. But it’s weird when something completely uncontroversial, plain simple obvious facts, seems to upset some people.
I have to agree with Millhouse on this one. Rikers Island is run by the NYC Dept. of Corrections. It is not a federal detention facility. The charges against Adams are federal, not City. If he’s detained pre-trial, it will be in a federal facility, like the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, and not in a City lock-up like Rikers Island. While I agree that he will likely be out before the ink dries, Millhouse is right, and his comment didn’t warrant downvotes.
Milhouse, I think a lot of down-ticks you get are from people who just down-tick comments from you. At times you ARE a bit paedantic* but also are generally right. In this case I just, flat, don’t see a reason for it.
* “paedantic” is the spelling used by really paedantic people spelling out the word “pedantic”. And when on a computer where I can find that “ae” thing, I really get carried away!
That’s why I wrote that it’s not just people downvoting everything I write. That I could understand; there are some nasty, vicious, hate-filled people here. But not everything I write gets this treatment. Often I get no downvotes at all. And then some completely uncontroversial comment, with nothing but plain obvious facts, gets them, and I wonder what is going through those people’s minds. It’s clearly not just personal animus, there must be something in the comment that they disagree with, but what could it be?
Griz, you get the æ thing by typing æ
To Milhouse: when I get home I’ll try that. Thanks.
I could say that the spelling change is Monophthongization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monophthongization#:~:text=Monophthongization%20is%20a%20sound%20change,represented%20diphthongs%20now%20represent%20monophthongs. but that would be paedantic
Griz, you’re under arrest for kerning and possession of an unlicensed ligature.
It says right in the story that the FBI was going after his office and him. They don’t do state crimes. I’m sure he will be out by noon and my only question is how long will he be able to stop himself from getting in front of cameras and blaming Trump for being arrested.
Exactly. As I wrote, “Federal charges, so no Rikers. MDC in Brooklyn.”
And he clearly qualifies for bail, so he won’t be in MDC either.
Someone’s career at the DoJ will be cut short. Going after prominent Democrats isn’t acceptable to gauleiter Garland
If Garland didn’t want this, it wouldn’t be happening.
Huh, maybe he shouldn’t have complained about illegal immigration or something like that.
In Soviet America democrat officials are allowed .…
https://archive.org/details/russian-strategic-culture-by-martti-kari/
Basically, the Mafia, but with a flag.
In this case, a rainbow Pride flag. (Seems to be the only one the Dems recognize.)
Indictment? This sounds like a Tuesday in Chicago.
No surprise. NYC is one of the most corrupt cities in the US. I was born, raised, educated, and worked In NYC. Finally I had enough and left in the 1970s. One thing I learned was the amazing tolerance New Yorkers have for corruption. Most New Yorkers don’t mind corruption so much as they would like to get in on it. “Hey how can I make a buck out of this?” To get some idea of how bad it gets, read “The NYPD Tapes.” The story of an honest cop, Adrian Schoolcraft. Much worse than the Serpico scandal. His precinct commander ordered the crime numbers fudged to under report some crimes and make up others. Innocent citizens would get arrested, while serious crimes would go unreported. The practice was widespread throughout the city. Schoolcraft secretly recorded the commands. His big mistake was going to Internal Affairs, also corrupt. The police raided his apartment, stealing his equipment and dragging him off to Jamaica Hospital. No warrant because there was no crime. Like the government in Soviet Union, the police represented him a psycho. He spent nine hours handcuffed to a gurney. The doctors and nurses at Jamaica Hospital knowingly went along with the ruse violating the law and their medical oaths. They watched him being tortured. No one helped him. Not the press, or any official. The Village Voice put his recordings on the web circa 2010. Everything including the raid on this apartment. The Schoolcraft story rips the mask off, and reveals the city for what it is: a cesspool of corruption and depravity.
As we see with the indictment of Adams, the rot starts at the top. Just like it always has. Now who did he piss off?
Obama, Schumer and AOC?
More and more, I think most police departments are nothing more than a city-sponsored gang.
It depends to a great extent on the people for whom they work: both city officials and the citizens. Particularly in the cases where the citizens push all responsibility for governance onto the officials, it’s prime territory for exactly what you’re talking about.
The latest ham sandwich for the voracious Biden-Harris gang?
Last October Mayor Adams gave a powerful speech “we are not alright” unequivocally defending Jews and Israel and condemning Hamas and antisemitism.
Later he was interviewed on MSNBC where he said,
“And I was really troubled when I saw the Democratic Socialist Party hold a protest within a day or so after this horrific action holding up swastikas, calling for the eradication of Jewish people in these protests. This is not who we are, the overwhelming majority of human beings. ..”
Mayor Adams made thr fatal error of criticizing the WH regime.
He spoke up against Illegal immigration, stood up for Israel, and American values.
Those are 3 things you’re not allowed to do in the Democrat’s religion. of Democracy.
The indictment was under seal on porpoise.
Holy mackerel!
I sea lion going on.
Was the Grand Jury sitting in Coney Island?
I feel no pity for Adams, who is a leftist, white-hating hack, but there is NO DOUBT that this is a political prosecution worthy of the CPSU or CCP.
He openly dared to question the regime on illegal immigrants, and that cannot be allowed.
The Communists, as they always do, eat their own when no no-Communists are left, as is the case in NYC.
He’s a hack, but he’s not particularly leftist. He’s a race hustler, or at least he used to be, but he doesn’t hate whites. The race card was just a way for him to get ahead, and when it became more of a burden than an asset he put it away.
“The inquiry remained secret until [Adams left the reservation and started complaining about how federal immigration policies were negatively impacting the city].”
There – fixed it for them.
Another big city black mayor not living up to expectations? Isn’t his race supposed to give him some unique qualities to represent all the “diverse” interests?
Elsewhere, he is quoted as defending himself (for the sake of the people, of course) by claiming the documents they searched for were “20 years old.” That would put it outside the statue of limitations for almost anything except murder, rape, or anything Trump has done. Or is he exaggerating?
But there is no statute of limitations when it comes to character assassination and cancellation.