On Thursday, Sept. 26, Mayor Eric Adams was formally indicted on charges of bribery, soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations and wire fraud.
According to the 57-page indictment, Manhattan US Attorney Damian Williams’ office alleges that the mayor, starting back when he served as Brooklyn Borough President in 2014, solicited and accepted illegal foreign campaign donations and gifts from the government of Turkey in exchange for assisting in speeding up the process for approvals for a Midtown Manhattan Turkish consulate building. The indictment also alleges that he hid the illegal foreign contributions via straw donations and used those funds to get $10,000,000 in public matching funds for his mayoral campaign.
