Erden Arkan, a businessman with close ties to New York’s Turkish community, pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to ...

NEW YORK — A Turkish American construction executive pleaded guilty Friday to making illegal straw donations to Mayor Eric Adams’ 2021 ... Arkan’s plea was not a surprise.

The trip comes as Adams stares down federal corruption charges and just days before the president-elect’s inauguration.

He has pleaded not guilty. Mayor Eric Adams visits Turkish House alongside Consul General of Turkiye in New York, Reyhan Ozgur. (Photo by Selcuk Acar / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Arkan ...

The head of a Brooklyn construction company admitted Friday to working with the Turkish government to set up straw donors for New York City Mayor Eric ... mayor. Adams pleaded not guilty in ...

Erden Arkan, aka "Businessman-5," pled guilty to making 10 straw donations to the Eric Adams 2021 mayoral campaign.

NEW YORK − New York City's indicted mayor, Eric Adams, is going to meet with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago ...

Erden Arkan pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge Friday alleging that he worked with a Turkish government official to funnel illegal campaign contributions to Mayor Eric Adams.

Arkan mentioned the Eric Adams campaign by name several times during his plea ... Adams, a first-term Democrat mayor and former NYPD captain, pleaded not guilty to the federal indictment. He denies ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is scheduled to meet with ... the Justice Department to drop the charges. Adams, who has pleaded not guilty, has indicated that he is open to accepting a pardon.

Erden Arkan said he paid his employees to give to the mayoral campaign in consultation with the Turkish government.