Last year, a former City Hall assistant accused of tampering with a witness, which was linked to a federal corruption case against New York Mayor Eric Adams, which he intends to say, according to a court document, which Friday The prosecution was filed in the case of the mayor.
It was unclear from this document, whether auxiliary, Mohammed Bahi, who served as the mayor’s contact with the Muslim community, was cooperating with prosecutors. But he identified Mr Bahi, 40, as a co -operation in the case against the mayor.
In the document – a letter to the judge who presided over Mr Adams’ bribery and fraud – prosecutors sought the mayor’s crime against the mayor and the links between Mr Bahi and another person’s cases. Another person, a Turkish American businessman, who was charged separately, last month proved to be a crime for a plot to cheat on the mayor’s 2021 campaign.
Prosecutors said the allegations against Mr Bahi and trader, Arden Arkin were born due to the mayor’s involvement in a criminal scheme.
A spokesman for the US Attorney’s Office for the southern district of New York, who is prosecuting Mayor Adams, has refused to comment. Mr Bahi’s lawyer, Drake Adams, could not immediately arrive to comment.
One of the mayor’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, could not immediately arrive to comment.
The revelation of Mr Bahi’s criminal request is further clouding the situation related to legal action against Mr Adams himself. The New York Times reports that Mr Adams’ legal team met with US Department of Justice officials and a federal prosecutor with Manhattan, about which the possibility of leaving the case against him.
After the meeting, after President Trump’s statements, it was suggested that the mayor was accused of political reasons under the Biden administration. Mr Adams has said that he has been charged because he criticized the former administration’s response to the refugee crisis.
Manhattan’s federal prosecutor has filed a court filed that such claims are baseless.
It would be unusual, if Mr Adams’ trial was left, other defendants for the prosecution, such as the cases against Mr Bahi, accused of participating in criminal activities like Mayor Gone – especially when the prosecution said the scheme was primarily aimed at taking advantage of Mr Adams.
Initially, Mr Spro termed the crime against Mr Adams as weakened because he said it was based on the statement of a former assistant, Rana Abbasova, who was assisting in the investigation.
But then prosecutors said in court papers that “there are numerous witnesses that will clearly involve the defendant in criminal behavior, each of which to electronic communication and more than 50 cell phones and other electronic devices and other electronic devices. Other data obtained from accounts is supported. “
And the case against Mr Bahi, which was charged in less than two weeks after Mr Adams was charged, was present to strengthen the case against the mayor.
Initial charges against Mr Bahi, which were detailed in detail on October 8 without any criminal complaint, revealed that an Uzbek businessman who said that the prosecution donated Mr Adams to a straw was investigated. Are cooperating. The case also raised the possibility that Mr Bahi could testify himself against Mr Adams.
Mr Bahi was accused of working as a contact between Mr Adams and the trader, Tulib Mansurov, after which the prosecution said that he later resolved the problems with his construction company’s department buildings. The mayor was helped and helped.
Prosecutors said Mr Bahi coached Mr Mansurov and his employees to lie to federal investigators about the partnership, and he photographed the grand jury sub -individuals given to the employees. According to the court circle, the FBI hanged search warrants last year at the homes of Mr Mansurov and Mr Bahi.
Mr Mansurov, his employees or Ms Abbasova, have not been publicly charged.
Prosecutors in their letter to the judge, in his letter to Dale E Ho, said that Mr Bahi would prove a crime for a single count of the conspiracy, the same crime in which Mr Arkin confessed.
The two men, prosecutors, wrote that “the name of anyone other than the real assistant” was plotting to submit the election campaign partnership. The prosecution said, using these shameful donations, Mr Adams managed to get additional public reconciliation funds from the city for his campaign.
The mayor has accused the same behavior in his crime.
Prosecutors also noted in their letter that “Bahi has indicated that he intends to prove a crime for the only count of information against him, citing the charging document filed against him on Thursday.
Benjamin Weser Reporting was contributed.
