Eric Adams indicted
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Last November, New York Mayor Eric Adams told FBI agents he’d made an innocent mistake by changing – and then forgetting – the passcode to his mobile phone, making it more difficult for investigators to probe its contents.
A five-count federal indictment unsealed in Manhattan on Thursday says it was more than just a slip of the mind.
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Last Nov. 2, the former police captain was in Washington for a meeting at the White House when he learned the FBI had visited the home of his top fundraiser, Brianna Suggs. Suggs phoned Adams five times before answering the door, prosecutors say.
The mayor canceled the White House meeting and dashed back to New York.
During an interview with the FBI, an Adams staffer excused herself and, while in the bathroom, allegedly deleted from her phone encrypted messaging apps she’d used to communicate with Adams, a Turkish businessman, and others, the indictment said.
Four days later, the FBI came armed with a search warrant for Adams’ own phones – but the mayor was only carrying his two official devices. His personal phone – the one he used to discuss campaign finance and, allegedly, official favors for the Turkish government – was at home.
An absent-minded (now indicted) mayor
On November 5, Adams surrendered that mobile phone – but there was a hitch.
“When Adams produced his personal cellphone the next day in response to a subpoena, it was 'locked,' such that the device required a password to open,” the indictment said. “Adams claimed that after he learned about the investigation into his conduct, he changed the password" that same day "and increased the complexity of his password from four digits to six.”
The mayor said he’d changed the password to prevent members of his staff from accidentally deleting anything.
“But, Adams further claimed, he had forgotten the password he had just set, and thus was unable to provide the FBI with a password that would unlock the phone,” the indictment says.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/opinion/eric-adams-nyc-mayor.html
interesting list of mayors, i rememeber all of them back to John Lindsay. I even visited Gracie mansion in 1970 when Lindsay hosted a party for the championship Knicks and i ran around like the kid i was getting autographs from Willis Reed and Walt Frazier.
but interesting that the only one who gets a positive plug is Fiorello La Guardia..who not only has a NY airport named after him but also a main road in Tel Aviv!
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It's alleged that he paid $50 for overseas business-class travel to a Turkish airline which is owned by...the Turkish government.
He "intervened" in getting a fire department inspector to ignore code violations in a skyscraper. He told said inspector that he would lose his job. The inspector ignored the violations in the building which was owned by...a Turkish business.
Then, there's straw donors...
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It's alleged that he paid $50 for overseas business-class travel to a Turkish airline which is owned by...the Turkish government.
He "intervened" in getting a fire department inspector to ignore code violations in a skyscraper. He told said inspector that he would lose his job. The inspector ignored the violations in the building which was owned by...a Turkish business.
Then, there's straw donors...
@George-K said in Eric Adams indicted:
..the Turkish government.
@George-K said in Eric Adams indicted:
...a Turkish business.
I wonder what the "long game" is for Turkey?
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/opinion/eric-adams-nyc-mayor.html
interesting list of mayors, i rememeber all of them back to John Lindsay. I even visited Gracie mansion in 1970 when Lindsay hosted a party for the championship Knicks and i ran around like the kid i was getting autographs from Willis Reed and Walt Frazier.
but interesting that the only one who gets a positive plug is Fiorello La Guardia..who not only has a NY airport named after him but also a main road in Tel Aviv!
@bachophile said in Eric Adams indicted:
but interesting that the only one who gets a positive plug is Fiorello La Guardia..who not only has a NY airport named after him but also a main road in Tel Aviv!
I remember back to Beame, he was pretty nondiscript, but then again I probaby wasn't paying much attention. Koch was really good--he personified NYC way more than anyone before or after. Dinkins was a DISASTER. At every stoplight hordes of grifters would decend on your car and wash your windshield with stale urine (as opposted to fresh urine, I suppose) for a dollar. That all stopped like magic the day Giuliani was elected. He kept the City "law and order" which was fine with me. Bloomburg was ok but if anybody had a bigger ego than Ed Koch, it was Bloomburg. With de Blasio things started to go down hill and Adams was as bad as Dinkins. You can't walk down Columbus Ave. past 72nd St. without fearing for your life. NYC is pretty much a sewer these days.
Sigh. FYI, I unlike Bach was NEVER invited to Gracie Mansion.
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https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/2/24260626/fbi-eric-adams-locked-phone-forgotten-changed-password
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who was indicted last week on charges including fraud, bribery, and soliciting donations from foreign nationals, told federal investigators he forgot his phone password before handing it over, according to charging documents. That was almost a year ago, and investigators still can’t get into the phone, prosecutors said Wednesday.
When Adams turned in his personal cellphone the following day, charging documents say, he said he had changed the password a day prior — after learning about the investigation — and couldn’t remember it. Adams told investigators he changed the password “to prevent members of his staff from inadvertently or intentionally deleting the contents of his phone,” the indictment alleges.
Even if Adams’ excuse isn’t true (or if he happens to remember his password later on), he may not have to give that information to the police. Several courts have ruled that, even in instances where police have a warrant to search someone’s phone, the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination means investigators can’t compel a suspect to tell them their phone password. Phone passcodes are often considered a form of “testimonial” evidence because they require a person to reveal their thoughts. But if Face or Touch ID had been enabled on Adams’ device, the FBI potentially could have unlocked his phone with biometrics — which aren’t typically considered a form of testimonial evidence.
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A reputed CIA asset, Turkish billionaire Sezgin Baran Korkmaz, is allegedly cooperating with federal officials in the sweeping investigation into New York City Mayor Eric Adams and is expected to take the stand in the former NYPD captain and Brooklyn Borough President's 2025 trial, Los Angeles has learned.
