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for The New York Times: Six Charged With Organizing Illegal Donations to Adams’s 2021 Campaign
josé a. alvarado jr.
Jul 8, 2023
The 27-count indictment accuses the defendants, some of whom had sophisticated knowledge of campaign finance law, of trying to conceal the source of thousands of dollars in donations by making them in the names of colleagues and relatives.
The indictment, announced by the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, says the group sought influence and perhaps city contracts, but it does not accuse Mr. Adams or his campaign of misconduct and does not suggest he was aware of the scheme.
Mr. Bragg said in a statement that the defendants had concocted “a deliberate scheme to game the system in a blatant attempt to gain power.”
Photographed for The New York Times, with words by Dana Rubinstein, William K. Rashbaum and Susan C. Beachy
Six Charged With Organizing Illegal Donations to Adams’s 2021 CampaignOne defendant knew Mayor Eric Adams when they were police officers. Prosecutors did not accuse the mayor of knowing about what they called a scheme to acquire thousands of dollars in extra public matching funds.
Nytimes.com
