US EditionBrooklyn Construction Magnate Gets Probation for Funneling Illegal Donations to NYC Mayor Eric Adams
Erden Arkan admitted to illegally reimbursing employees for donations, resulting in $18,000 in illicit campaign funds and a $9,500 fine, avoiding prison with a probation sentence.
- On Friday, Manhattan federal Judge Dale Ho sentenced Erden Arkan, owner of KSK Construction Group, to one year of probation, a $9,500 fine, and $18,000 restitution.
- By funneling those funds into the matching funds program, Adams obtained public money illegally, prosecutors say, after Adams and a Turkish consular official solicited donations at an April 2021 dinner.
- Dale Ho, Manhattan federal Judge, told Arkan, 'People say, and I think it’s true, that a life is not reduced to a single act.'
- On Tuesday, Mohamed Bahi pleaded guilty to hiding $10,000 in campaign funds, with $18,000 restitution set to go to the New York City Campaign Finance Board.
- This saga underscores vulnerabilities in the city’s campaign finance system, as the Trump-era Justice Department intervened to dismiss charges against Adams, while Arkan remains the only person sentenced in a 20-year scheme.
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NYC construction kingpin who funneled illegal donations to Adams’ 2021 campaign apologizes as he gets wrist-slap sentence
"I'm simply sorry to the New York taxpayers," said Erden Arkan, 76, the owner of KSK Construction Group in Williamsburg, before the lax sentence was handed down in Manhattan federal court.
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Brooklyn construction magnate gets probation for funneling illegal donations to NYC Mayor Eric Adams
A Brooklyn construction magnate has been sentenced to a year of probation for working with a Turkish government official to funnel illegal campaign contributions to New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
Brooklyn construction magnate gets probation for funneling illegal donations to Mayor Adams
A Brooklyn construction magnate was sentenced to a year of probation for working with a Turkish government official to funnel illegal campaign contributions to NYC Mayor Eric Adams, resolving one of two related federal cases after the mayor’s criminal charges were dropped.
Turkish Adams Donor Sentenced
With help from Amira McKee THE FINAL STRAW? Construction executive Erden Arkan must not have friends in the Trump administration like Mayor Eric Adams does. So while the Department of Justice moved to dismiss the mayor’s case, the wheels of justice kept turning for Arkan. The Turkish-American co-owner of KSK Construction Group was given a The post Turkish Adams Donor Sentenced appeared first on .
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