Mayor Eric Adams vowed to “fully participate” in any campaign probe after he rushed back to New York City from Washington, DC, Thursday upon learning his chief fundraiser’s Brooklyn home was raided by the FBI.
Adams claimed he has not spoken to the campaign consultant Brianna Suggs in his first public remarks since news broke of the raid tied to an investigation into an alleged kickback scheme involving the Turkish government and a Brooklyn construction company.
“I hold my campaign to the highest ethical standards,” Hizzoner said at an unrelated Día de Muertos event at Gracie Mansion Thursday night.
“Any inquiry that is done, we’re going to fully participate and make sure that it’s done correctly.”
Adams said he had not heard from any federal authorities who are reportedly looking into whether money was illegally funneled to his 2021 mayoral campaign through a Williamsburg-based construction company.
“I have not been contacted by anyone from any law enforcement agency, and that’s why I came back from the DC to be here, to be on the ground and look at this inquiry as it was made,” he said.
The mayor had just landed in the nation’s capital when he learned of the raid on Suggs’ Crown Heights home and immediately jetted back to the Big Apple — bailing on a slate of meetings with White House officials and other Democratic mayors about the migrant crisis.
He claimed he had not spoken to Suggs — who has been called the political “goddaughter” of Adams’ chief advisor Ingrid Lewis-Martin — “at all” Thursday when questioned by The Post at the Día de Muertos celebration.
Federal investigators are looking into whether Adams’ campaign took foreign money via straw donors, someone who illegally donates cash in another person’s name, in cahoots with the Turkish government and KSK Construction Group, according to The New York Times.
The feds’ warrant – which was obtained by the Times – said agents were looking for evidence of the theft of federal funds, wire fraud, conspiracy to steal federal funds and wire fraud conspiracy.