{"id":1966744,"date":"2023-07-07T14:23:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T18:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eric-adams-donors-schemed-to-influence-mayor-manhattan-da-alleges\/"},"modified":"2023-07-07T14:25:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T18:25:42","slug":"eric-adams-donors-schemed-to-influence-mayor-manhattan-da-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eric-adams-donors-schemed-to-influence-mayor-manhattan-da-alleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan DA claims Eric Adams&#8217; donors plotted to sway Mayor."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feric-adams-donors-schemed-to-influence-mayor-manhattan-da-alleges%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1966744&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<h2>New York City mayor Eric Adams and Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg<\/h2>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manhattanda.org\/d-a-bragg-announces-indictments-in-major-campaign-finance-fraud-scheme\/\" alt=\"Photo by Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images\"><br \/>\n    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Campaign Donors Plot to Provide Illegal Donations to Mayor Adams<\/h3>\n<p>In a shocking revelation, indictments announced by Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg (D.) on Friday exposed a plot by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iowa-stops-enforcement-of-covid-19-restrictions\/\" title=\"Iowa stops enforcement of COVID-19 restrictions\">campaign donors<\/a> to New York City mayor Eric Adams (D.). These donors devised an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alleged-fact-checkers-ignore-new-facts-on-hunter-biden-emails\/\" title=\"Alleged \u201cFact Checkers\u201d Ignore \u201cNew\u201d Facts on Hunter Biden Emails\">elaborate scheme<\/a> in 2020 and 2021 to provide illegal donations to Adams&#8217; campaign while expecting favors from City Hall in return.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants involved in this &#8220;very organized&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/military-reserves-officer-allegedly-falsified-recommendation-letters-for-afghans-seeking-special-visas\/\" title=\"Military Reserves Officer Allegedly Falsified Recommendation Letters For Afghans Seeking Special Visas\">scheme aimed<\/a> to bypass campaign finance laws and funnel more money to the Adams campaign than legally allowed, as reported by <i>Politico<\/i>. They employed a straw-donor scheme, where individuals were paid to donate to the campaign on their behalf.<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate goal was to leverage the illicitly obtained funds to secure favorable treatment from City Hall once Adams assumed office, according to <i>Politico<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time a straw-donor scheme has brought down a prominent New York Democrat. Just last year, former New York lieutenant governor Brian Benjamin resigned after being arrested for accepting straw donations. Although the most serious charges were dismissed, Benjamin still faces two counts of falsifying records, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/05\/nyregion\/brian-benjamin-charges-bribery.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While Bragg&#8217;s office has not charged Mayor Adams&#8217; campaign, there are indications that Adams may have been aware of at least one of the fundraisers organized by the schemers, as revealed by <i>Politico<\/i>. Prior to these fundraisers, one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eric-adams-donors-schemed-to-influence-mayor-manhattan-da-alleges\/\" title=\"Manhattan DA claims Eric Adams' donors plotted to sway Mayor.\">defendant allegedly approached donors<\/a> and shared information on how to circumvent contribution limits using the straw-donor scheme, as stated in Bragg&#8217;s announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to his troubles, The <em>New York Times<\/em> recently reported that Mayor Adams manipulated a Google printout of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-ted-cruz-grills-biden-doj-nominee-for-allegedly-organizing-event-that-celebrated-cop-killers\/\" title=\"WATCH: Ted Cruz Grills Biden DOJ Nominee For Allegedly Organizing Event That Celebrated Cop Killers\">murdered police officer<\/a>, falsely claiming he had kept the photo in his wallet for decades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indictments revealed that campaign donors schemed to offer illegal donations to Mayor Eric Adams in exchange for favors from City Hall. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg disclosed these findings, shedding light on the illicit activities that occurred between 2020 and 2021. (55 words)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":1966745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1966744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1966745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}