Eric Adams, the outspoken Mayor of the largest US city, has been charged with bribery and campaign financing irregularities by Federal prosecutors, and one of the allegations relates to a trip he took to India.
The charges released on Thursday said after he purchased economy class tickets for himself and his domestic partner to India in 2016 on Turkish Airlines he accepted upgrades to business class, which prosecutors assert was valued at nearly $13,000 that he did not disclose receiving it in his official filings.
The prosecutors put the amounts he illegally benefitted from at $100,000. No one connected to India is mentioned in the indictment, which centres on his alleged ties to Turkiye.