Former NYPD inspector Dwayne Montgomery pled guilty Monday to conspiracy charges for his role in orchestrating a straw donor scheme to benefit Eric Adams’ 2021 mayoral campaign.
Montgomery — whom the mayor knew socially from their service as police officers — copped to fifth-degree conspiracy charges, a Class A misdemeanor, in front of Judge Althea Drysdale at Manhattan Criminal Court early Monday morning. In the plea agreement, Montgomery agreed to pay a $500 fine and submit to 200 hours of community service, which he will complete as an instructor at BKLYN Combine, a non-profit serving African-American youth from financially disadvantaged communities.
Montgomery was one of six co-defendants indicted last summer by a grand jury, which Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg convened, as part of the sprawling scheme to fill Adams’ campaign coffers with illegal straw donations, wherein people who make contributions are reimbursed to shield the true origin of the funds and get around campaign finance limits.