Overview

• Mohamed Bahi pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to conspiring to solicit straw donations from a Brooklyn construction company’s employees at a December 2020 fundraiser.
• He admitted he knew the campaign would seek eight-to-one public matching funds on the reimbursed contributions and acknowledged “it was wrong.”
• Bahi faces up to five years in prison when he is sentenced on Nov. 17 on a wire fraud conspiracy charge.
• His plea follows earlier guilty admissions by Erden Arkan and others and comes after the DOJ dropped charges against Mayor Adams in February, prompting protests and resignations among Manhattan prosecutors.
• Federal prosecutors have not provided updates on other active investigations, including those involving seized phones from the city’s police commissioner and senior advisers.