NYC Mayor Eric Adams Pleads Not Guilty to Corruption Charges
The mayor faces five federal charges, including bribery and fraud.
*UPDATE* NYC Mayor Eric Adams pleaded not guilty to the five federal charges he faces after a lengthy corruption investigation.
“I am not guilty, your honor,” Adams told Magistrate Judge Katharine H. Parker.
More:
Prosecutors are asking that Adams not be allowed to have contact with witnesses or individuals named in the indictment. They said they were willing to confer with Adams’s lawyers to negotiate how he can communicate with “persons in the mayor’s family or members of the mayor’s staff,” who may know facts of the case.
Judge Parker has ruled that Adams is to have no contact with any individual witness or others on a list to be provided by prosecutors concerning the “facts and circumstances” in the indictment. He will not be limited from communicating with them about “business or private family matters,” she said.
Prosecutors did not ask Adams to surrender his passport.
Judge Parker “released Adams “on his own recognizance” with a “warning that he had to return to court when required or he could face consequences, including jail time.”
Adams will have a hearing next week. His lawyer, Alex Spiro, will ask the court to dismiss the charges.
District Judge Dale E. Ho will preside over the hearing.
***Previous reporting….
Embattled NYC Mayor Eric Adams arrived at the Manhattan federal courthouse this morning to face his arraignment, which will happen at noon ET.
A federal grand jury indicted Adams on Wednesday.
The judge unsealed the indictment on Thursday, revealing five federal charges concerning an investigation into corruption in his mayoral campaign.
The charges:
- Count One: Conspiracy to Commit WireFraud, Federal Program Bribery, and to Receive Campaign Contributions By Foreign Nationals
- Count Two: Wire Fraud
- Count Three: Solicitation of a Contribution by a Foreign National (action from 2021)
- Count Four: Solicitation of a Contribution by a Foreign National (action from 2023)
- Count Five: Bribery
It’s all tied to the Turkish consulate building in Manhattan. Despite its low standards, Adams is accused of bribing people to approve the building.
Adams allegedly did this if the Turkish groups donated to his mayoral campaign.
The fire official in charge claimed he “was told that he would lose his job if he failed to acquiesce, and, after Adams intervened, the skyscraper opened as requested by the Turkish Official.”
The government also accused Adams of continuing his corruption after his inauguration: “Adams soon began preparing for his next election, including by planning to solicit more illegal contributions and granting requests from those who supported his 2021 mayoral campaign.”
I will update this post throughout the day.
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While finding it perfectly plausible that this race-blinded grifter is guilty as charged, one has to wonder just who he angered in the power structure to be punished in this way; after all, its not like he’s unique in soliciting campaign bribes.
Was it the complaints about illegals?
You’re being coy, we all know this is all about him breaking ranks on illegals.
Politicians doing “favors” for folks who previously, simultaneously, or subsequently donate to their campaigns is SOP. Unless they’re stupid enuf to get a quid pro quo in writing or on audio/video it’s almost never prosecuted – lacking other factors. At least post the congressional post office scandal reforms, it’s harder for them to convert campaign funds to personal income.
At least in this case every word of the charges may be true and based on settled law – as opposed to the many Trump charges based on falsehoods and new novel interpretations of law.
But make no mistake, the weaponization of the DOJ is at the root of the timing here, lacking the mayor publicly embarrassing the admin on illegals this was unlikely to happen. I’m not against punishing politicians for selling their office, but I’m against selective enforcement of such for political gain.
Yep he’s being punished for criticizing immigration enforcement by the Executive Branch.
man I hope he turns this into some race baiting nonsense
Question for the group:
Is Adams being “Cosbyed”? That is to say that transgressions that were given a wink and a nod because you were part of the club are suddenly used against you because you spoke out against the club?
IDK, but looking at the guy who would replace Adams, it won’t be long before NYC becomes a dystopian nightmare.
May have to close the borders to NYC when that happens.
Jonathan Turley has a column in today’s NY Post reviewing the charges and calls them weak. To me, this smacks of DOJ’s weaponization of the law to conduct lawfare on critics of the Brandon-Harris Administration. I hope President Trumps wins and thoroughly roots out the rot now pervasive throughout the executive branch, and in particular the DOJ, the FBI and the DHS.
So maybe bc, hex,bho, jb, kh, and Mitch are next? In my dreams
Hrc not hex
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