If Adams were acting as an agent to advance the interests of the government of Turkey, what would he be doing? Or more precisely, if Adams were not making decisions while considering what is good for the government of Turkey, what would he be doing differently?
“U.S. Investigating Whether Adams Received Illegal Donations From Turkey,” Dnyuz, November 2, 2023:
Federal prosecutors and the F.B.I. are conducting a broad public corruption investigation into whether Mayor Eric Adams’s 2021 election campaign conspired with the Turkish government to receive illegal foreign donations, according to a search warrant obtained by The New York Times.
The investigation burst into public view on Thursday when federal agents conducted an early-morning raid at the Brooklyn home of the mayor’s chief fund-raiser, Brianna Suggs. Ms. Suggs is a campaign consultant who is deeply entwined with efforts to advance the mayor’s agenda.
Investigators also sought to learn more about the potential involvement of a Brooklyn construction company with ties to Turkey, as well as a small university in Washington, D.C., that also has ties to the country and to Mr. Adams.
According to the search warrant, investigators were also focused on whether the mayor’s campaign kicked back benefits to the construction company’s officials and employees, and to Turkish officials.
The agents seized three iPhones and two laptop computers, along with papers and other evidence, including something agents identified as “manila folder labeled Eric Adams,” seven “contribution card binders” and other materials, according to the document.
There was no indication that the investigation was targeting the mayor, and he is not accused of wrongdoing. Yet the raid apparently prompted him to abruptly cancel several meetings scheduled for Thursday morning in Washington, D.C., where he planned to speak with White House officials and members of Congress about the migrant crisis.
Instead, he hurriedly returned to New York “to deal with a matter,” a spokesman for the mayor said.
“The mayor heard of an issue related to the campaign and takes these issues seriously, so wanted to get back to New York as quickly as possible,” Fabien Levy, the deputy mayor for communications, said in a statement Thursday evening. “He plans to return to D.C. and reschedule these meetings as soon as he can.”
The warrant suggested that some of the foreign campaign contributions were made as part of a straw donor scheme, where donations are made in the names of people who did not actually give money. Investigators sought evidence to support potential charges that included the theft of federal funds and conspiracy to steal federal funds, wire fraud and wire fraud conspiracy, as well as campaign contributions by foreign nationals and conspiracy to make such contributions.
Mr. Adams has boasted of his ties to Turkey, most recently during a flag-raising he hosted for the country in Lower Manhattan last week. The mayor said that there were probably no other mayors in New York City history who had visited Turkey as frequently as he has.
“I think I’m on my sixth or seventh visit,” he said. At least one of those visits happened while he was Brooklyn borough president, when the government of Turkey underwrote the excursion, The Daily News reported….
Wellington says
Perhaps Adams, or at least his campaign, is guilty here, probably more likely than not that such is the case. But I feel compelled to note that Adams, pretty much a foolish and inept person all around, has nonetheless been very vocal over the past several months in publicly manifesting objection to Biden’s horribly destructive border policies and which policies are now impacting NYC as they are in so many other locales in the USA.
Conclude accordingly. After all, wickedness and foolishness so very often eat their own. The 1400 year deadly animosity between Shiite and Sunni come to mind as an example, one of many that could be proffered, and thus sustaining this point of mine.
somehistory says
My thoughts run along the same lines, Wellington.
He’s been going against the admin on the *immigration* thing, the lawbreaking going on and the dangers they are bringing upon the citizens of this country.
That is not allowed.
tgusa says
A prerequisite to joining the democrat party is an inclination towards criminality.
James Lincoln says
Certainly true regarding today’s Democrats, tgusa.
They either break US laws themselves – or support those who do.
libertyORdeath says
I wonder where he got that idea?
We have the Biden Crime Family, the entire nation of Ukraine, the Clinton Foundation scam, Mitch McConnell’s CCP funded wife, the BILLIONS in dark money, the FTX scandal, and the recent foreign funding conviction on Obama’s campaign that was in the HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS. And that’s all just from THIS CENTURY!
By now, it’s an established Democrat/deep-state tradition. We are being illegally governed by treasonous traitors who have done nothing but destroy the world for a century.
bill says
Why would he be rasing aforeign flag in USA is my query, The onlt Turkish flag would be on their embassy
OLD GUY says
No politician or political party should be allowed to accept money from a foreign government or corporation majority owned by off shore persons or individuals who are non-American citizens. PERIOD!
Stephen says
Stand up the only lonely democrap at the back of the room that isn’t on the take …
Surely there must be one of them that’s not smart enough to create some kind of backhanded money making scheme, which would be the only reason they’re all in politics