WEBVTT - Bad Mayor Monday: The Eric Adams Indictment Special 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:07.840 Also media, Welcome, Dick It Happened Here a podcast where 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:10.440 we're bringing Shitty Mayor one Day back to celebrate an 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:15.320 incredibly special occasion, which is the unbelievably funny federal indictment 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:19.480 of what New York Mayor Eric Adams with me talk about. 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:24.200 This is Garrison Davis, is James Stout and and we 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:29.760 have a New York expert, our fellow trade unionist, Yeah, 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:33.640 Joey pat who works on what we Love and Afterlives. 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:35.440 Joey, Welcome to the show. 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:38.160 Hey, thank you for having me. Excited to be here. 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:41.519 I hope I can. I can provide some insight to 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:45.760 New York City and everything that's been happening lately. 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:49.520 The Eric Adams news really is kind of the most 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:52.120 positive piece of duce that we've had the past month. 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:56.440 It's been a really bad it's keeping me going. 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:58.720 Yeah, I feel like I gotta say I found out 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:00.880 the news of the indictment. I was at like a 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:05.080 gay bar near me, like at a like queer Pool event, 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.640 and like everybody got the news at the same time, 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:08.959 and it. 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:10.880 Was one of the funniest. 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.280 Ways to learn that Eric Adams has been a yacht 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:17.319 was that was the like the most joy I've seen 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:19.160 from a from a group of New Yorkers in a while. 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:20.280 What a beauty. 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:22.759 Yeah, okay, so I want to I want to open 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.280 the floor up to Eric Adams stories. But first I 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:27.200 need to complain about the fact that so I have 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:30.120 I have long as a proud Chicago Wan who has 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:33.160 now fled Chicago for Portland. I have long made fun 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.720 of New York for being a Tier two Chinese city 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.200 that thinks that it's the greatest city in the world. 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.400 And then I learned they didn't have trash cans, which 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:43.360 pushed this at like, this is not even like a 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:46.319 Tier five. This is a level of trash collection that 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:51.320 you see in like rural HOOBEI like, what the fuck Britain. 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:53.760 The United Kingdom where we got rid of trash cans too? 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.920 Oh my god, that's not true though, because luckily Eric 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:58.720 Adams didn't make the trash cans. 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.320 It's just what is going on. 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:05.080 The first American city to ever think of this idea. 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.799 I'm for context. I am also in a unique position 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:14.560 here because I'm from Chicago, and yeah, oftentimes get my 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:18.040 friends and family that still live in Chicago confused as 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.960 to why I live out here. I do love New York. 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:23.880 I I it is a great city to live in. 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:26.079 But these are the kind of moments we have where 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:30.360 I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I can't. I can't. 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:31.079 I don't know. 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:33.720 I honestly, And then. 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:34.160 Think about this. 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:35.040 Eric Adams stuff too. 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:37.200 It's like the stuff he's so, there's gonna be a 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:39.640 second federal indictment with more people in it, but the 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:43.960 first one it's kind of brush league shit by Chicago standards. 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:45.840 Like like if you compare this. 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:50.520 To like like Rob Lagoyevitch trying to sell off, like 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:54.320 trying to sell Obama's Senate seat, It's like, okay, yeah, 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:56.480 I've been saying New York wants. 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.440 To be Chicago. They're starting a second city here too. 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:05.160 Oh no, No, the ads in the subway and every 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.600 time takes away a part of my soul. Like I'm like, 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:09.639 you cannot claim that that is us. 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:14.000 It just means there's gonna be even more insufferable people. 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:17.240 This this sucks. Yeah, a second second city has hit 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:23.120 the Towers. Another great Rag Adams moment. Eric Adams hit 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:23.920 the Towers. 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.040 No no, but he had he had this great interview 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:29.200 where he was asked to summarize like, what. 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:30.640 Makes New York great in one word? 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.560 And he gave the answer, h New York, which is 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.360 two words, and that explained it's because it's the only 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:38.320 city where you can wake up and have nine to 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:43.360 eleven happen and also open up a small business. One 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.440 of the one of the funniest Eric Adams moments I've 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:50.520 ever seen till until he was indicted, which is now 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.520 the new funniest Aracatams moment, which we should probably get 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:55.640 to because this is not a short indictment. 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.040 Wait are we're doing all Eric adams favorite moments yet? 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.280 Because I have a fat we got run? 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:01.240 Yeah? 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:02.360 Mine? 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:04.880 Yeah? Do you want to hit his with yous? Jerry? 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:09.040 Mine's definitely. I think the ongoing saga of just whether 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:11.320 or not he's a vegan and the fact that he 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.560 repeatedly claims he's a vegan and thinks that vegan. 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:14.320 I didn't know this. 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.760 Yeah, he's a vegan. He talks a lot about how 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:19.760 he's a vegan and all the health benefits and how 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:23.040 it's he has a lot of weird like beliefs about 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.800 health and stuff that have come out over his you know, 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:30.920 mayor old run. But apparently he's not actually a vegan 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:35.320 because he's been seen like eating chicken on camera and 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.080 like that the weird video of his apartment when he 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:40.320 was running. That was the Brooklyn apartment that he may 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.000 or may not live in, Like there was like some 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:44.960 sort of meat product in the fridge or something. There's 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:46.960 been a whole thing about how like he maybe and 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:50.320 he's like admitted that he's like eaten meat sometimes, Like 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:51.640 he's like, oh, well, you know, I'll just have like 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.239 a little nibble, like it's it's it doesn't count. Chicken 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:54.800 is a vegan? 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:59.880 What do you mean he identifies as a vegan vegan. 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:05.000 He's like some kind of like like sixteenth century Catholic 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:06.960 you know where they have all these weird exceptions for 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:09.800 fish and like right right, that's. 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:13.000 A repent and then whatever to confass and and then 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:14.840 he's getting he gets you get a card back. 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:16.719 That's a good one. That's a good one. Yeah, Jewey's 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:17.719 Jewi's kind of mentioned mine. 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:19.520 But the fact that he definitely is from New Jersey, 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:21.000 which I think is what allowed him to use a 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.880 trash can, Like he definitely does not live in New York. 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:25.440 There's there's no way, like. 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.080 My favorite also relates to him not living in New York, 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:33.240 which is when Kurb staked out his New York apartment 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:37.479 and he came back once parked illegally and then caused 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.000 a traffic jam by parking illegally so bad that he 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.880 couldn't put out of the parking. He wasn't in a 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.080 parking space. He was in someone's driveway. So then he 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:51.040 proceeded to drive along the sidewalk, and they like filmed 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.719 him doing this, and he confessed to doing it and 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:57.000 was like it was a terrible mistake, just an incredible 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:57.919 sequence of events. 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:00.760 I mean, maybe that is like a New York mayor 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:03.560 who can't drive, Like, I guess that makes sense. 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.960 Like yet refuses to use mass transit. 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:10.000 Oh God, that's true. That's true. He does hate public transportation. 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:12.680 God, you can just send more cops in the subway. 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.960 That'll fix it, all right, Oh God, let's uh yeah, 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.120 let's let's let's get into this. Get start. 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:21.240 So okay, So the things here is being indicted for 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:26.800 are effectively okay. So he took a bunch of different 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:32.039 bribes in different ways. So he took I guess there's 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.520 two broad categories of bribes that he took, which is 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:38.239 the bribes that are campaign donations that he funneled through 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:42.480 straw donors, which is the thing where you like there's 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:44.440 like limits on how much money you could donate to someone, right, 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:46.679 So what you do is you find like ten people 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:48.760 and you give them all two thousand dollars so they 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:50.680 can still donate it even though it's the money from you. 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.680 This is unbelievably legal. And the second type is him 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:59.440 just accepting unbelievable amounts of like gifts and stuff from 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:03.760 a Turk shairliner. Now, the interesting thing about this is 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:05.880 that you would expect this is the thing that started 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:07.760 when he was a mayor, but like, no, he was, 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.360 so he was. He was the borough president of Brooklyn 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.200 for a bunch of years before he became mayor. 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:14.200 And this is like as. 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:18.080 Burro president is when he really started doing all of 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.600 this random, weird corruption stuff. 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:24.040 He's been doing this for almost like ten years. 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:28.920 Yeah, I kind of love this too, because the like 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:32.080 Brooklyn borough president, it's kind of a fake job, like 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.400 you don't really do anything. And I love the fact 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.000 that he still managed to find ways to be corrupt 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:38.240 and his like fake. 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:38.840 Job that he had. 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:42.200 It's stunning, Oh, because I'm going to read starting with 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.280 the indictment a bit. By smuggling their contributions to Adams 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:49.800 through US based straw donors, Adams oversees contributors defeated federal 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:52.840 laws that served to prevent foreign influence on US elections. 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:53.560 Wealth. 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:56.440 The individuals evaded laws designed to limit their power over 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:58.760 elected officials by restricting the amount of money one person 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:02.120 could donate to a candidate, and businesses circumvented New York 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.200 City's ban on corporate contributions by fundeling the donations the 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.520 multiple employees, frustrating a law that cc reduce corporate power 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:13.239 in politics. Adams increases fundraising by accepting these concealed illegal 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:16.440 donations at the cost of giving a secret patients undue 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:18.760 influence over him that the law tries to prevent. So 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:22.040 this is really funny because so there's three different illegal 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.600 like things that he's done, like three shildo owners. So 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:28.480 like there's like there's three kinds of campaign contributions you 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:31.960 can't do. It's like corporations one person there's like limits 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.120 and how men watch an individual person could donate and 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.520 you can't get you can't get donations from like people 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:41.520 not from the US, and he managed to both individually 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.400 and in the same scheme violate every single one of 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:45.040 these laws. 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:48.319 It's it's shitty, widely incredible. I guess I would like 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:49.120 to learn more. 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:50.600 I mean, at some point, and I'm sure we'll get 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:54.199 into it as how like explicit this whole like Turkish 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:57.760 funding really is like extremely. 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.800 About it. Yeah, I'm sure we'll get to this. 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:03.719 It's when they're like, hey, Eric, you're not going to 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:07.000 say anything about the Median genocide au that Tony didn't happen, bro, 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:08.400 don't mention the genocide. 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:10.520 Oh yeah, we'll get to that. 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:14.080 So Eric Adams, the defendant, also saw and received other 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.640 improper benefits from some of the same co conspirators who 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:20.120 fundised shchra altonations to his campaign. In particular, a senior 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:25.040 official in the Turkish diplomatic establishments henceforth Turkish official who 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:28.600 facilitated many Chral donations to Adams, also arrange for Adams 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.400 and his companions to receive free or discounted travel on 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:35.800 Turkey's national airline quote the Turkish Airline, which is owned 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:39.920 a significant part by the Turkish governments, to destinations including France, China, 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:43.560 Sri Lanka, India, Hungary, and Turkey itself. The Turkish officials 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.480 and other Turkish nationals further arrange for Adams and his 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:49.840 companions to receive, among other things, free rooms at opulent hotels, 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.600 free meals of high end restaurants, and free luxurious entertainment 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:53.280 well in Turkey. 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.479 So this is all very very explicit. 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:01.120 He's got wanderlust, you know, supposed to be like a 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:04.560 travel blogger like Girley, like doing tiktoks and you know, 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:07.200 unfortunately he had to become mayor. 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:11.400 So yeah, a bond of log forster. 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:14.440 Mayor starting to do the job he wants to. 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:17.040 Yeah, it's very tragic. Okay. 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.920 So actually the first thing Turkish influence thing that he did. 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.280 I actually, this is weirdly the one part of this 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:24.400 they don't have a problem with. One of the big 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.680 things he was trying to get was there's a giant 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:30.000 like uke Turkish consulate building that they opened kind of recently, 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.199 and a big part of this was getting permission to 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:35.720 open the Turkish consulate without a fire inspection, so that 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:37.679 air to one could visit for like the opening of 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.839 the consulate and look, okay, we already can't fly to 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:44.319 Turkey because of a public support for the Curtis Free movement. 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:47.560 So like, I'm just gonna say this, I am entirely 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.880 okay with this. I am I don't give a shit 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:52.479 if they don't do fire inspections. 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:54.720 I'm okay with heir to one being in a non 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:55.680 fire safe building. 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.679 Yeah yeah, like fuck him. 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:00.880 Like, if the guy who burned hundred and fifty people 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.080 alive and Cindy wants to fucking burn a death in 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:07.360 his own consulate, then let him. Like I Jennie widely 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.440 don't give a shit about this. She did threaten the 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.560 job of like the New York Fire Department's fire inspector, 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.640 which kind of sucks, but like, if everyone wants to 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:17.920 burn to death in his death trap, let him do that. 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:19.320 This is one of the. 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:23.000 Text conversations that done. Was was uh, I don't know 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.079 if leaked is the right word, but yeah, like cause 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:25.240 it was. 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:25.600 It was. 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:27.280 They were like there was something they said to where 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:29.040 they were like, we've done a lot for you. Now 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.920 it's time for you to do something for the Republic 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:33.360 of Turkey. Yeah. 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:34.840 Yeah, we'll get we'll get to that. 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:39.560 This is yeah, yeah, yeah, it's so good town shit 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:44.640 I was like, all right. After Eric Adams, a defendant, 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.600 first travel to Turkey in twenty fifteen, the Turkish official 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.520 introduced Adams to Turkish Airlines general manager in New York 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.920 City area in twenty sixteen and twice in twenty seventeen. Again, 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.240 this is all before he US Mayor Adam solicited and 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.640 accepted free and heavily discounted luxury air travel from Turkish 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.800 Airline as part of Turkish officials' efforts to gain an 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:06.240 influence over Adams on three separate trips. Basically, like he's 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:09.440 getting first class tickets from all of these people. It's 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:12.840 so much money worth of stuff, like just like thousands 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:15.160 of dollars. The exact totals, like all of the gifts 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:17.440 he took from Turkish Airlines's like one hundred and it's 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:19.200 like one hundred and thirty one thousand something dollars. 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:20.200 Jesus Christ. 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:24.520 Yeah, man, So like any time I read a paragraph 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:29.120 of this, just assume that in between like whatever paragraph 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:30.920 I'm reading and the stuff I didn't read before it, 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:34.880 he's taken another ten thousand dollars of free like first 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:36.360 class rides a Turkish airline. 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:38.400 It is a blessing in disguise, I will say that 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:41.559 I will never see Eric Adams on a flight because 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:42.280 I cannot fly. 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.440 It was Turkish Airlines. That's true. 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.880 There's a very funny line about this, because the Turkish 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:50.599 airline provided free travel benefits were tens of thousands of 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.040 dollars to Eric Adams, the defendants. He flew the Turkish 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.600 airline even when doing so was otherwise inconvenience. 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:56.959 Yeah, this is fucking correct. 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:02.320 For example, for example, the July in August twenty seventeen trip, 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.360 Adam's partner was surprised to learn that Adams was in 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:07.640 Turkey when she had understood him to be flying from 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:11.679 New York to France. Adams responded in a text message quote, 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:15.520 transferring here you know first off is always in istanbul 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:23.720 spelled very wrong and lowercase is true. When adams partner 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:27.280 later inquired about planning a trip to the Eastern island Chile, 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:31.680 Adams repeatedly asked her whether Turkish airlines could be used 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.839 for these flights, requesting her to call Turkish Airlines to 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.679 confirm they did not have roots between New York and Chile. 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.320 Why would Tish airlines have a flight from New York? 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:47.800 Oh my God, which spits part of the Greater Ottoman Empire. 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.160 You know, I would take bribes from Air Canada, but 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:52.600 I'm also not running for mayor. 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.959 So yeah, well you could run for Bira president. That's true. 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.800 That's true. I could. I could become. 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:02.760 Elected the mayor of southful That is very doable. Every Similarly, 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:05.400 lots of the mayors of South Fulton have had very 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.560 odd kind of controversies. So what I'm saying is South 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.560 Fulton is basically Georgia's version of New York. 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:15.720 New York is a South Fulton of America. Yeah. Have 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:17.920 you guys seen a video clip of him. Every city 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.080 he goes to, he says, like, New York's the city 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.240 of America. Yeah, crazy, It's crazy. 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:30.160 Stambul of America. 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.000 So this is all very funny. But this is all happening. 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.720 All of the tens of thousands of dollars at this 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.000 point of money that he's taking from Turkey is all 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.720 happening at a period where Turkey is butchering Kurds across the 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:43.920 Middle East, like his first trip there. And this is 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.040 all again well before his mayor while he's like Brooklyn 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:49.520 Borough president is four months before the fire bomber of 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:51.720 that city that I talked about where they were again, 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.960 they burned one hundred and fifty civilians alive in fucking building. 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.080 If I'm remembering correctly, I'm pretty sure they killed. I'm 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.800 pretty sure they burned the city council alive. That's just 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:02.600 the stuff in Turkey, and like we have covered extensively 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.800 on this show, Turkey's like drone warfare program. There's the 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:09.120 whole thing of it. Has been long suspected that the 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:12.160 Turkish government was aiding ISIS during the period because they 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.960 were like using basically using them as a proxy to 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:18.560 fight like Kurtish Freedom Movement forces in Syria. 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:22.160 I think you could definitely say that, like former ISIS 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.440 fighters are now fighting for the Turkish against the Kurds 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:27.440 in the Iraqi Curtis done. 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:29.600 Yeah, I've said that before. 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:34.120 The Kurds will tell you that former I know David 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.920 Graebery at the Apologies you spent actually who who smuggled 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:40.800 a bunch of drone parts too, had a story about 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:42.320 how we soccing people like yeah, they would like they 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.480 would pick up ISIS fighters and they would look at 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:46.400 their possessions and they every single one of them as 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.280 Turkish passports. They all have like Turkish I did shit. 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:51.160 It's like, hm, I wonder where these people came from. 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.160 Even like I'll just say that I have spoken to 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:56.800 some people who were part of the fight against ISIS 0:15:56.840 --> 0:16:01.440 who discovered the blank Turkish passports when taking like ISIS 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:03.000 buildings and ISIS strongholds. 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:05.960 Yeah, so there's I mean, just this is a period 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:10.120 of even by the standards of Turkey, like unbelievable Turkish violence. 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.080 This is their their invasion of Syria. 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.680 And you know, this is the period in which Eric 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:17.720 Adams decides that he's going to become a nation to 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.680 the Turkish state. And so obviously, like he lies about 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:23.400 this to the governments because again you're not allowed to 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:26.160 do this. There's a bunch of very funny schemes that 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:31.560 he does. As Brooklyn Borough President, Adams employed a scheduler 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:35.400 henceforth known as the Adams Scheduler, who pointed it who 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.640 manages appointments, meetings, and other official events. Despite her status 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.400 as a New York City employee, the Adams Scheduler was 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.360 used by Adams to perform personal tasks for him, such 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:48.080 as collecting rent at a Brooklyn property he owned. Adams 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:51.800 also assigned the scheduler to pay various expenses for him, 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:55.120 after which Adams would reimburse the scheduler in cash. In 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.840 twenty seventeen, Adams sent a series of emails to the 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:01.080 scheduler directing the scheduler to pay for the free twenty 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.720 seventeen flights he and his companions had already taken on 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:07.400 the Turkish air Line, but the emails provided inconsistent explanations. 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:11.520 In some Adams suggested that the Adams schedulers should pay 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.639 using Adam's credit card, while on others, Adams claimed to 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:18.400 have left cash in an envelope for the Adams scheduler 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:20.080 to send to the Turkish air Line. 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:22.239 Ah, it's that's how you pay. That's how I pay 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:24.399 for all my fights. Cash. It an envido. 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:26.560 This is how we tried to cover up for the 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:28.200 fact that he's not paying for these flights. And he'll 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:30.280 pay like six hundred dollars for a thread dollars ticket, 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:33.840 but he's like sending envelopes to his scheduler to hand 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:34.800 to the Turkish air Line. 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:38.040 A man who was a call doing an absolutely terrible 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:39.760 job of covering his own ass. 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:44.320 You know who else is taking bribes from the Turkish government. 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.080 We cannot It's not our products and services. It's it's 0:17:50.119 --> 0:18:04.159 someone else's products and services. Ours are all fine. We 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:08.600 are back. So there's actually another paragraph of that part. 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:12.399 For example, on November twenty fifth, twenty seventeen, Adam sent 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.800 an email to the scheduler saying that with respects to 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.879 the July trip quote, I left you the money for 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.400 the International airline and did an envelope and your top 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.800 gest drawer please send it to them. So the funny 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:26.119 one about this, right, So he's supposed to have this 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:27.960 like cash dead drop to pay for the island tickets. 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.959 Then he just like never does it because the tickets 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:33.840 are free. So he just like stops covering his tracks. 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:36.879 Yeah, amazing, and doesn't use signal. 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:41.399 Yeah it's really sounding okay. So what is Turkish government 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.760 getting from this in return for travel benefits the Turkish 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:48.160 official provided or range In about twenty fifteen or twenty sixteen, 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:51.760 Eric Adams, the defendant, granted a political request from the 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:55.439 Turkish official prior to Adam's twenty fifteen travel to Turkey, 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:58.639 which Adams knew and disclosed to the one of the 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.720 monitoring agencies have been funded by, among other entities, the 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:05.520 Turkish Consulate, the Turkish Airline in three separate municipalities in Turkey. 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:09.200 Adams maintained a relationship with a Turkish community center in Brooklyn. 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.560 In or about twenty sixteen, the Turkish official told Adams 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.040 that the community center was affiliated with a Turkish movement 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:18.000 that was hostile to Turkey's government, and that if Adams 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:21.840 wished to continue receiving support from the Turkish government, Adams 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:24.720 could no longer associate with the community center. Adam zach 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:27.280 wies Scott, I wonder who it was, See, Okay, so 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:29.840 I looked into this. No one that I've seen doing 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:32.119 reporting on this seems to know which center this was. 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:36.440 But but this has to be a Goulinist thing. Yeah, 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:40.040 So to people who didn't spend all of their childhoodmired 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:44.080 in the intpt of Turkish politics, Airedwan's the current rule 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:48.200 of Turkey, Gulam was like one of his old old allies. 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:52.399 But they had this giant falling out and a huge 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:54.439 part of what everyone was doing in the twenty tens 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:58.080 was like trying to purge all of the Gulanists from everywhere. 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:00.720