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_Published 2023-11-14. The FBI and New York City federal prosecutors are currently investigating whether New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ 2021 campaign received illegal foreign donations amid speculation about his relationship with Turkish officials._


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## Transcript

No one has been accused of wrongdoing in the investigation at to my knowledge and there has been no indication that I've seen that the mayor is a Target because our constituency I the largest Turkey population outside of Paterson, New Jersey in this country. I believe his was in Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Borough president and we reached out to the of the commissioner to to assist to find out what was happening. I will be very clear about a reaching out to FDNY to assist my constituents. Like all my other elected officials are due in the city. I did not speak to any of the individual are in the FDNY did not circumvent the commissioner of the commissioner was the person that I asked or can you look into of this and that was all I spoke with that is speak to any Chief.

I didn't speak to any deputy and a Anyone else because it's not my job to circumvent a commissioner following Collective Outreach to the investigators. They determined that access to certain of the mayor's devices was accessible and we've course was advisable and we have course complied and gave access. We don't do the straw donors. A lot of people know what that means. But we don't do the store down. This is why we don't, you know, do quid pro quo. We follow the Lord. I'm very clear on that. I've stated in from my days in the police department to my days of state senator to my days of all president and as the man, you know, I I just strongly believe that that's what I spent my my life and forcing the law and I'm going to continue to tell the team of that, you know, we follow the law in this Administration and in all of my ministrations,

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