Eric Adams

This article was co-published with Documented. For nearly a decade, Jean Xie recalled making it a habit to search online for two things: “Fresh Meadows Hotel” and “New York City.”  A resident of Shenzhen in China, Xie had become an investor in the Mayflower International Hotel Group’s Fresh Meadows Hotel EB-5 program which allowed foreign…

Federal prosecutors on Friday pushed back forcefully on a motion by Mayor Eric Adams to dismiss a key bribery count against him.  In fighting his indictment by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Damian Williams, Adams moved to dismiss a bribery count by insisting he was not doing favors for the Turkish government. Adams was merely performing routine…