Jonathan Turley Says There Is ‘Less Than Meets The Eye’ In Federal Indictment Against Eric Adams

While Adams served as the Brooklyn Borough president, he allegedly pressured the New York City Fire Department to speed up the process of approving the construction of a Turkish consular building without a fire inspection in exchange for receiving free or discounted travel to several international locations by Turkish nationals, according to the indictment. A Turkish official allegedly sent Adams straw donations to his mayoral campaign.

Adams allegedly failed to disclose the travel benefits on his annual financial disclosures, according to the indictment.

“The most damaging is probably the allegations of solicitation of foreign contributions, but we have to see how much knowledge he had that $100,000 are largely upgrades in hotels, which certainly don’t make him look good,” Turley said. “But I think the biggest problem he’s gonna have is the U.S. Attorney’s office was very aggressive yesterday and basically warned people around him, ‘we’re gonna be indicting others, so you better cooperate.’ And they’re trying to build a case with his associates because they know those witnesses are very damaging in front of a jury.”

Adams has been charged with “conspiracy to commit wire fraud, federal program bribery, and to receive campaign contributions by foreign nationals,” along with one count of wire fraud, two counts of solicitation of a contribution by a foreign national and one count of bribery, the indictment reads.

The New York City mayor said on Thursday that the indictment is part of a retaliation effort by President Joe Biden’s administration due to him criticizing their “broken immigration policies.”