FBI raids home of New York mayor’s top campaign fundraiser

2023-11-03 00:54:45

He FBI searched this Thursday the home of the main fundraiser for the campaign of the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, who today abruptly canceled a trip to Washington D.C. to address the immigration crisis that the city is going through.

The advisor’s home registry, Brianna Suggs, in Brooklyn is related to a Manhattan District Attorney’s Office investigation into possible corruption between Adams’ 2021 Mayoral campaign and the Turkish government.

Specifically, prosecutors are investigating, with the help of the FBI, whether the Adams campaign conspired with a Brooklyn construction company to receive funds from the Turkish authorities illicitly, according to the newspaper. The New York Timeswhich cites fragments of the search warrant to which it has had access.

Last week, during a Turkish ceremony in NY, The mayor assured that there are probably no mayors in the history of the city who have traveled to Turkey more times than him.

According to Suggs’ LinkedIn profile, the advisor whose home was registered this Thursday, between 2019 and 2021 managed to raise up to 18 million dollars for the election of the mayor.

Adams’ 2021 campaign advisor, Vito Pitta, He said in a statement reported by The Wall Street Journal that the mayor himself has not been contacted as part of the investigation.

Adams canceled several meetings he had scheduled at the last minute on Thursday without giving any explanation. White House to address the immigration crisis in the city and state, which have welcomed more than 130,000 people in the last year and a half.

The mayor advertised the trip on his social networks this morning, explaining that he was going to try “the real problem of asylum seekers” with Government officials and representatives of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and that he would do so together with other mayors in a similar situation.

However, Adams’ office sent an update canceling that agenda shortly before the meetings began, stating simply that they will be “rescheduled as soon as possible“.