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Brooklyn Developer Sentenced for Funneling Straw Donations to Mayor Adams’ Campaign

His cooperation is fueling a city board probe into straw-donor schemes spanning Adams’ 2021 through 2025 mayoral bids.

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FILE - Erden Arkan leaves federal court, Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, in New York after pleading guilty to a charge alleging that he worked with a Turkish government official to funnel illegal campaign contributions to New York City Mayor Eric Adams. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, file)
Erden Arkan, grey hat, leaves Manhattan Federal Court after pleading guilty to bundling campaign donations Friday, Jan. 10, 2025 in Manhattan, New York. (Barry Williams/ New York Daily News)
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Overview

  • Erden Arkan was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to pay a $9,500 fine plus $18,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to funneling straw donations into Eric Adams’ 2021 mayoral campaign.
  • Arkan acknowledged reimbursing employees for contributions that prosecutors say artificially inflated public matching funds under New York City’s small-donor program.
  • He has agreed to cooperate with an ongoing New York City Campaign Finance Board audit examining similar straw-donor activities in both Adams’ 2021 and 2025 campaigns.
  • The U.S. Department of Justice earlier this year ordered Manhattan prosecutors to drop the criminal case against Adams, a move that Judge Dale Ho criticized as an improper exercise of discretion.
  • In response the Campaign Finance Board has withheld millions in public matching funds for Adams’ 2025 reelection bid pending completion of its administrative review.