New York Mayor Eric Adams was charged with bribery, wire fraud and seeking illegal campaign donations in a federal indictment unsealed Thursday — a lengthy list of accusations that grew out of what prosecutors called “corrupt relationships” with rich foreigners.
For nearly a decade, the indictment charged, 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 that those corrupt relationships dated to Adams’s time as the Brooklyn borough president, and that his rise in big city politics was fueled in part by a criminal scheme to take expensive gifts of travel and hotel stays, as well as illegal campaign money.
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Why do these politicians think it’s ok to accept money from foreign countries? It’s not. Notice that in 99% of these cases, it’s men who do this. Maya Wiley would have been a great mayor. We need to start electing more women.
Probably just a coincidence that the investigation into him began at the same time he was critical of Biden / Harris immigration policies and what it was costing his city.
I bet a large percentage of politicians are in the same boat. He just pushed against the 'machine'.
The standard sleazy politician package of charges. This is like arresting an actor for cocaine and soliciting a minor.
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