New York City Mayor Eric Adams has raised more than half a million dollars for his legal defense fund as federal investigators continue a public corruption investigation into his 2021 campaign, the fund told CNN on Monday.
“The Eric Adams Legal Defense Trust has drawn strong support in a short amount of time, raising more than $650,000 since it was formed just two months ago,” Vito Pitta, counsel to the fund, told CNN. The fund is required to disclose its first round of donations to the city’s Conflict of Interest Board by Tuesday.
City employees are allowed to set up legal defense funds to raise money to pay for certain legal bills and expenses connected with their employment, according to guidance posted by the board.
ACAB, even the ones that claim to be retired from the force and ‘moderate democrats’.
The worst thing about being a Democrat in NY has got to be that your choices in elections are Republicans or “moderate” Dems who are both corrupted by donors.
It’s a “safe” Dem state, so the Dems who run tend to be more conservative than Dems anywhere else in the country.
There’s too many rich people to let a progressive win in a big race. They’ll throw crazy money against progressives in the primary so there’s never even a chance of them making it to the general.
Hell, they had Clinton shoved down their throats as senator, and there effectively wasn’t even a primary against here. I don’t think she ever even tried to explain why she ran in NY, it was just the only election she ever had a chance to win. So she ran in it.
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“The Eric Adams Legal Defense Trust has drawn strong support in a short amount of time, raising more than $650,000 since it was formed just two months ago,” Vito Pitta, counsel to the fund, told CNN.
Although he has not been accused of any wrongdoing, Adams secured private legal representation at the firm WilmerHale shortly after it was reported that his campaign was under the scrutiny of federal investigators.
Shortly after the raid at the fundraiser’s home, agents also seized the mayor’s electronic devices, including his cell phones and iPad.
Law enforcement officials familiar with the search warrants told CNN the investigators were seeking evidence that foreign nationals – who are barred from making campaign contributions – may have “bundled” donations by getting US citizens of Turkish origin to act as “straw contributors.” The alleged scheme would have allowed money coming from foreign business entities to be masqueraded as donations from American citizens.
Adams has a long and proud relationship with the Turkish American community of New York City, and he has made a half a dozen trips to Turkey.
CNN’s John Miller, Mark Morales, Celina Tebor and Kristina Sgueglia contributed to this report.
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