New York City Mayor Eric Adams spent Sunday praising God and vowing not to resign.
Rather, the Democratic mayor, reportedly under federal indictment soliciting illegal campaign donations According to the New York Post, he said he was “going to rule” from foreign entities and by presenting falsified paperwork to cover them up.
Adams spoke for about 30 minutes to the congregation of Immanuel Presbyterian Reformed Church in The Bronx, and declined to answer reporters’ questions afterward, Post report.
“God put me in this moment and placed a place in my heart to lead this city forward,” Adams said Sunday. “And so you’ll hear a small number of people saying loudly, ‘But he should step down.’ No, I’m not going to step down. I’m not going to resign.
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams sits with his attorney Alex Spiro in federal court during his arraignment after being charged with illegally soliciting campaign contributions and accepting bribes from a foreign national on September 27, 2024 in New York City. This courtroom sketch. (Reuters/Jane Rosenberg)
The post also said that on Monday morning, Adams’ legal team filed a motion To have bribery charges dismissed from federal indictment. The indictment accuses Adams of accepting luxury travel bribes in 2021 and 2022 in exchange for the New York City Fire Department allowing the 36-story Turkevi Center, also known as Turkish House, to be built despite fire safety concerns .
According to the indictment, federal investigators were investigating whether Adams’s 2021 and 2025 mayoral campaigns conspired with Turkish officials, business leaders and other entities to illegally raise funds. Court documents allege wrongdoing dating back to 2016.
“Despite the fact that the indictment reproduces quotes from messages, emails and conversations for several other points, it does not allege any specific exchanges or conversations in which Adams and the Turkish officer conducted this alleged exchange.” Entered into the agreement,” his legal team wrote, according to the post.
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A view of Turkevi Center, where Turkey’s Permanent Representation to the United Nations (UN) and the New York Consulate General are located, is seen among other skyscrapers before its inauguration after its construction ended in New York City on August 18. , 2021. (Typhoon Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Adams allegedly defrauded taxpayers of $10 million over the past decade and often took free or deeply discounted vacations from his foreign beneficiaries.
Adams released a video statement saying that any allegations filed against him would be “based on complete lies, lies” and stressed that his criticism Biden administrationDisastrous border policies made him a target of retaliation.
“The federal government did nothing as its broken immigration policies burdened our asylum system with no relief,” he said in a video statement. “I put the people of New York before party and politics.”
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams and attorney Alex Spiro speak to the media as they leave federal court following Adams’ indictment in Lower Manhattan on Friday, September 27, 2024. Adams faces five federal charges, including two counts of alleged conspiracy and wire fraud. Soliciting contributions and bribery by a foreign national. (Omar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
Investigators denied claims that the case was political vendetta during a news briefing on Thursday.
Adams is due back in court on Wednesday for a conference before U.S. District Judge Dale E. Ho, who the TV station says will preside over the case going forward. fox 5 new york,
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He faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted of all charges, which also include one count of conspiracy to receive campaign contributions from foreign nationals. commit wire fraud and bribery, one count of wire fraud, two counts of soliciting campaign contributions from foreign nationals and one count of soliciting and accepting bribes.
Fox News’ Joseph A. Wolfson, Michael Ruiz and Maria Paronich contributed to this report.
