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NEW YORK -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been charged with 5 counts connected to improper run contributions, according to a sweeping indictment unsealed Thursday morning.
The national investigations into the Adams medication archetypal emerged publically connected Nov. 2, 2023, erstwhile FBI agents conducted an aboriginal greeting raid connected the Brooklyn location of Adams' main fundraiser, Brianna Suggs.
Adams present faces 1 number of ligament fraud, 1 number of conspiracy, 2 counts of solicitation of a publication from a overseas nationalist and 1 number of bribery, according to the indictment, charges that exposure the politician to important situation clip if convicted.
Below is simply a timeline of events starring up to the mayor's indictment.
Timeline of events successful Mayor Adams national investigation:
November 2, 2023 - FBI agents search the Brooklyn location of Brianna Suggs, a apical fundraiser for Mayor Eric Adams. They besides hunt the New Jersey location of Rana Abbasova, the mayor's planetary affairs aid. Adams flew to Washington, D.C. and past flew backmost contempt migration meetings scheduled with the White House.
November 6, 2023 - The FBI seizes Mayor Adam's physics devices, including iPad and compartment telephone arsenic portion of the national probe. Sources accidental they're looking into whether the mayor's run received overseas donations from Turkey.
November 15, 2023 - Mayor Adams launches a ineligible defence money to wage for expenses successful transportation with inquiries by the U.S. Attorney's bureau into his 2021 mayoral campaign.
February 29, 2024 - The FBI searches Bronx location of Winnie Greco, the manager of Asian Affairs for Adam's administration.
April 5, 2024 - ABC News reports the FBI is investigating whether Adams received escaped upgrades connected Turkish Airlines.
July 2024 - Federal prosecutors serve Adams expansive assemblage subpoenas arsenic portion of what sources accidental is an ongoing corruption probe involving whether his run sought amerciable donations from Turkey successful speech for pressuring the occurrence section to unreserved an inspection of the caller Turkish consulate successful New York City. The politician told WABC determination was nary criminality.
September 4, 2024 - FBI searches the homes of 2 of mayor's closest aids: the precocious Manhattan location of First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright, engaged to Schools Chancellor David Banks who had his idiosyncratic and enactment telephone seized. They besides searched the Queen's location of Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Phil Banks, and Terence Banks, a concern consultant. Seized evidence, electronics.
September 5, 2024 - Federal investigators subpoenaed the compartment phones of 4 precocious ranking NYPD officials, including past NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban and his duplicate member James Caban. Tim Pearson, a adjacent advisor to Adams besides had his compartment telephone seized.
September 12, 2024 - Commissioner Caban resigns, telling officers that helium didn't privation the investigations "to make a distraction."
"The sound astir caller developments has made that intolerable and has hindered the important enactment our metropolis requires," helium said.
September 14, 2024 - Lisa Zornberg, City Hall Chief Counsel, resigns aft a twelvemonth connected the job. She had advised Adams and different metropolis officials connected ineligible strategy for implicit a twelvemonth and often parried ineligible questions from the property connected his behalf. She was not his idiosyncratic lawyer.
"It has been a large grant to service the City. I americium tendering my resignation, effectual today, arsenic I person concluded that I tin nary longer efficaciously service successful my position. I privation you thing but the best," Zornberg wrote successful a three-sentence resignation missive to Adams.
September 16, 2024 - Two retired FDNY chiefs, Brian Cordasco and Anthony Saccavino, are arrested pursuing a year-long corruption investigation.
September 20, 2024 - Federal prosecutors subpoena the manager overseeing New York City's Office for Asylum Seekers, Molly Schaeffer.
September 21, 2024 - Federal agents search the location of the interim NYPD Commissioner Thomas Donlon. He says it was unrelated to the constabulary department.
September 23, 2024 - New York City Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan announces that helium volition resign and volition permission his bureau by January of 2025, saying helium wants to walk much clip with his family. He said his determination was not successful effect to the ongoing investigations into the Adams administration.
September 24, 2024 - New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks announces his retirement.
September 25, 2024 - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez becomes the astir salient sanction to call for Adams to resign. In a connection posted connected 'X' connected Wednesday, Ocasio-Cortez said, "I bash not spot however Mayor Adams tin proceed governing New York City," amid the question of resignations and investigations into the apical ranks of his administration.
September 26, 2024 - Adams is charged with 1 number of ligament fraud, 1 number of conspiracy, 2 counts of solicitation of a publication from a overseas nationalist and 1 number of bribery, according to the indictment, charges that exposure the politician to important situation clip if convicted.
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