Did New York Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat and former police captain, accept foreign bribes and foreign campaign contributions?
That’s the key issue in the federal indictment of New York’s mayor just handed down by a federal grand jury led by Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
The indictment charges Adams with five felonies under federal law that could result in his spending a long time in prison, including wire fraud, solicitation and receipt of campaign contributions from a foreign national, and outright bribery.
The indictment claims that when Adams became Brooklyn borough president in 2014, he “sought and accepted … valuable benefits, such as luxury international travel” from “wealthy foreign businesspeople including at least one Turkish government official seeking to gain influence over him.”
In 2018,…
