New York City Mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/eric-adams" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eric Adams</a> said the 25-year-old woman who served as his chief political fundraiser is no longer working in that position, nearly a month after federal agents raided her Brooklyn home.
Adams <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/nyregion/brianna-suggs-adams.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on Tuesday that his now-former political fundraising manager Brianna Suggs was out, after previously expressing he had &#8220;full confidence&#8221; in her fundraising efforts, according to The New York Times.
&#8220;She is no longer doing fundraising for the campaign,&#8221; Adams told reporters.
The mayor declined to comment further on Suggs. However, the New York Post <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-seizes-eric-adams-phones-amid-federal-corruption-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that a person close to the campaign said she remains on staff, but is moving into another role for the mayor&#8217;s 2025 reelection efforts.
Days after the raid, Adams reportedly described Suggs in an interview as a talented fundraiser.
&#8220;She led the fundraising numbers when you look at throughout the entire campaign, and I feel confidence in her integrity and how hard she works,&#8221; he reportedly <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/11/28/adams-campaign-fundraiser-brianna-suggs-reassigned-to-another-role-on-his-team-after-fbi-raid-at-her-home/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on PIX11. &#8220;And often, young African-American ladies don&#8217;t get the opportunities that others received in this business of politics, and she stood up from an intern, became a good staffer, and ran our entire fundraising apparatus in this previous campaign and this one as well.&#8221;
Suggs, who has raised approximately $2.5 million for Adams&#8217; 2025 reelection campaign, has not publicly commented about the reports.
Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation&#8217;s public corruption program raided Suggs&#8217; Brooklyn residence on November 2, which set off a series of investigations into Adams and his campaign. She is at least one of two people in the mayor&#8217;s inner circle whose belongings and electronic devices have reportedly been seized by the FBI.
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The FBI reportedly sought evidence of whether Adams&#8217; campaign conspired with the Turkish government via a Brooklyn construction company.
According to the Times, the warrant to search Suggs&#8217; home also sought proof of donations made from a D.C. college, Bay Atlantic University, whose founder is Turkish. Agents reportedly seized multiple iPhones, laptops, and numerous documents from Suggs&#8217; home, including a folder labeled &#8220;Eric Adams.&#8221;
When the news of the raid broke that morning, Adams reportedly canceled several meetings in Washington, D.C., about the historic immigration crisis in the U.S. that found its way into New York City. After several border state governors transported illegal migrants into Democrat-run sanctuary cities, Adams began vocalizing his frustrations with the Biden administration&#8217;s handling of the crisis.
Law enforcement sources told the Post that agents purposely conducted the raid while Adams was out of the city.
&#8220;As a former member of law enforcement, I expect all members of my staff to follow the law and fully cooperate with any sort of investigation—and I will continue to do exactly that,&#8221; Adams said in a statement. &#8220;I have nothing to hide.&#8221;
Federal agents also raided the home of the mayor&#8217;s personal assistant and member of the Mayor’s Office of International Affairs, Rana Abbasova, the same day authorities searched the home of Suggs, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/nyregion/nyc-adams-turkey-raid-aide.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Times</a>.
Abbasova was later placed on administrative leave after City Hall officials said she had “acted improperly” in connection to Adams’ campaign.
FBI agents later approached Adams while walking on a New York City street with his security detail. The agents proceeded to get into Adams&#8217; SUV with the mayor before taking two cell phones and an iPad. The devices were returned to the mayor within days, two people with knowledge of the seizure told the Times, but it was unclear whether the FBI agents&#8217; action was a part of the investigation into corruption allegations.
Authorities have not accused Adams or Suggs of any wrongdoing.
A spokeswoman for Crowell &amp; Moring, a law firm representing Suggs, told the Times they &#8220;look forward to continued cooperation with the government&#8217;s investigation, and her work in support of the mayor&#8217;s 2025 campaign.&#8221;
Zach Jewell contributed to this report.

Mayor Eric Adams speaks during press briefing at City Hall.

NYC Mayor Adams Says Chief Fundraiser No Longer In Position Following FBI Raid

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Eric Adams

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A man who identifies as a transgender woman has been charged in federal court and held in jail for threatening to shoot up schools and pledging to rape Christian girls in bathrooms — after local Illinois authorities released him with no bond.
Jason Lee Willie of Nashville, Illinois, who goes by Alexia N. Willie, was charged November 7 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois with 14 felony counts of Interstate Communication of a Threat to Injure, court records show. He allegedly modeled his actions off of the transgender-identifying woman who shot up the Christian Covenant School in Tennessee.
“A person in Tennessee walked into one of your schools and shot up a bunch of your Christian daughters. That’s not the last of them if you don’t shut your f***ing mouth,” Willie said, according to the indictment.
“There’s a lot of transgenders out here that are tired of being picked on and we’re going to go into the schools and we’re going to kill their f***ing children out here, and that’s the end of it. We’re at war,” he allegedly said, also saying ,“Let me put a bullet in your head.”
In August 2023, the 47-year old made a video call on an online platform in which he said, “I guarantee I’ll be in the bathroom raping your Christian daughters,” the <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67987364/united-states-v-willie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indictment</a> alleged.
“I catch your daughters in them bathrooms alone, I am gonna f*** them. I mean I am gonna f*** f*** them until they’re dead,” he said, according to the indictment.
“I’m openly a pedophile …. You can’t do nothing about us. You can cry. Cry. Put me on national television, I don’t care. I’m transgender, I’m in the bathroom raping your f*** daughters and I’m openly letting you guys know this. The Republican Party, what are you f****ts going to do about us?” he allegedly said.
Willie also criticized black people, arguing that they are Christian and don’t like transgender people.
“They’re trash, they’re Christian trash. They’re transphobic, they’re homophobic. They’re no different than the f***ing white supremacists. That’s exactly who the f*** they are. Listen, Dave Chappelle and all the blacks out here, all the black people out here talking about trannies and s***, they ain’t no different than the white supremacists either. You all bow to the same cross,” he allegedly said.
Willie also said he would inject people with HIV in the bathroom if he saw them wearing a cross, according to the indictment.
“I catch you b*****s out here with a cross around your neck in that restroom, you better know we’re going to hit you with a f***ing syringe,” he allegedly said, adding “shut the f*** up, n*****.”
The Department of Justice led with him using the n-word, burying the transgender comments later in the indictment.
Willie pleaded not guilty November 9, and Magistrate Judge Reona J. Daly ordered that he be held in jail on November 14. A <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ilsd.98857/gov.uscourts.ilsd.98857.16.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proffer of evidence</a>, presented by federal prosecutors to convince the judge to hold him in jail, said that Willie made the comments in August on the video platform “MeetMe,” where his username was “Mentally Unstable.”
It said that the Perry County Sherriff&#8217;s Office had arrested him at the time, but that Willie mocked them while he was being transported to jail, predicting that Illinois would free him immediately. “I’ll get out of jail right now, you watch me. And when I get out you have no idea,” he said in a recording from a police van, federal prosecutors said.
<a href="https://reduxx.info/trans-identified-male-arrested-after-threatening-to-murder-children-in-illinois-over-transphobic-bullying/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reduxx</a> reported on October 16 about that local arrest, and Sherriff Chad Howard told the outlet that Willie&#8217;s prediction was accurate: he was released on $0 bond 48 hours after being booked. Though Willie was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, “the disorderly conduct did not stick” because “there was no one individual person or individual school directly threatened,” the sherriff said. That left only a resisting arrest charge, which Howard said because of Illinois’ new SAFE-T Act, a suspect cannot be held in jail for.
The sheriff told Reduxx that in a jailhouse interview, Willie said that when he said “we” were coming for your children, “he was speaking on behalf of the transgender community.”
Willie was released from state custody on August 17, and on August 24, Willie&#8217;s roommate contacted Perry County Sheriff’s Office to say that “Willie claimed to be learning how to use firearms and how to obtain a firearm so that she could follow through on the threats that she had made,” federal documents said.
On August 25, the FBI received another tip from MeetMe that he was still making similar comments. On November 8, the FBI arrested him, according to the federal court document.
A trial is set for January 16. Judith A. Kuenneke, a public defender listed as Willie&#8217;s representative, did not return a request for comment.
Federal prosecutors said that the FBI had repeatedly been warned about Willie by his roommate over the years, who told the bureau that “Willie goes on the internet to find preachers, or republicans, or black people,” and that “the FBI had come to his house a couple times over the last few years because of Willie’s online conduct.”
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They wrote that in December 2018, “the FBI received reports of a threat on Facebook in which Willie claimed to have killed a preacher that had molested Willie.” In November 2019, the video platform Twitch reported that he said he threatened to kill people, and mentioned people who discriminate against transgenders; the FBI interviewed him and Willie told him he didn’t mean it.
“On March 28, one day after the Covenant School shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, the FBI received a report that Willie posted on Facebook that there would be many more and larger attacks on Christians by transgender people and that Christians would come to know fear like never before,” it said.
The FBI has suggested that it is not treating the Tennessee shooting as a hate crime.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-fbi-dropped-probe-of-pedophile-to-focus-on-january-6-now-hes-accused-of-abusing-10-year-old-boy">The FBI Halted Probe Of Pedophile To Focus On January 6. Now He’s Accused Of Abusing A 10-Year-Old Boy.</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-satanist-pedophile-gang-is-torturing-kids-the-fbi-didnt-seem-to-care-unless-it-could-blame-white-supremacy">A Satanist Pedophile Gang Is Torturing Kids. The FBI Didn’t Seem To Care Unless It Could Blame White Supremacy.</a>

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Feds Charge Trans-Identifying Man After He Pledged To Copycat Nashville Shooting: ‘I’m Coming For Them In The Bathrooms’

Hate Crime

Illinois

Nashville

Tennessee

The Covenant School

Transgender

On January 6, 2021, the FBI explicitly chose to abandon a sting on a child pornographer in Virginia who was messaging with an undercover agent about having sex with a nine-year-old boy, opting instead to focus on prosecuting Donald Trump&#8217;s supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol. Less than three years later, the FBI discovered the same man living in Alaska where he appears to have been performing sex acts on a 10-year-old boy, according to court documents.
On December 2, 2020, an internet user with the screen name “gayboy69freak” messaged an undercover agent with the FBI&#8217;s Washington Field Office, who was posing as a father pimping out his 9-year-old son, and told him that he wanted to travel to D.C. to have sex with the boy. The man also sent the agent a video of “a prepubescent minor male being anally penetrated by an adult male’s erect penis.” His IP address led the FBI to Brogan Welsh of Glenn Allen, Virginia.
What appears to be a slam-dunk case against a child predator was abruptly abandoned just one month later.
“On January 6, 2021, FBI, Washington Field Office, [decided] this investigation was halted due to events that occurred at the United States Capitol Building that day,” <a class="c-link" href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.261158/gov.uscourts.dcd.261158.1.1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.261158/gov.uscourts.dcd.261158.1.1.pdf" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">court documents say</a>.
The man was only arrested, and the court documents only filed, because Welsh moved to Alaska and crossed the Anchorage FBI’s radar in an unrelated perversion investigation. On October 24, 2023, after coming across troubling chats from Welsh on a phone they seized from a different alleged pervert, Alaska FBI agents went into his house and “located items including sex toys that are very small in size and apparently consistent with the body size of an approximate 10-year-old boy,” as well as children’s underwear.
“The investigation has revealed that a 10-year-old boy was, in fact, residing at the residence belonging to Welsh,” the agents wrote.
In other words, because the FBI called off the dogs even after Welsh sent child porn to an FBI agent, he appears to have gone on to molest a 10-year-old.
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It was as FBI agents worked through the Alaska case that they realized that the bureau&#8217;s Washington Field Office had slam-dunk evidence that it had never bothered to do anything with, and added it to <a class="c-link" href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67908275/united-states-v-welsh/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67908275/united-states-v-welsh/" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">charging documents</a> filed November 6, 2023. The Alaska arrest of Welsh was made based on the initial child pornography crime in Virginia, not even his apparent crimes in Alaska.
The Washington Field Office wouldn&#8217;t say how many other ordinary criminal investigations were put on hold because of January 6, but it did acknowledge that resources were diverted.
“In the immediate aftermath of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, WFO resources were surged to support the FBI’s response and investigation,&#8221; the office told The Daily Wire in a statement. &#8220;However, WFO continued to diligently pursue its ongoing investigations. While we can’t speak to the specific circumstances of this case, the FBI takes all crimes against children investigations extremely seriously, and we must follow the facts where they lead and collect enough evidence to pursue prosecution.”
This sort of admission, that a case was dropped, rarely appears in court filings, because a dropped investigation means nothing ever makes it to court. Welsh&#8217;s case is an exception because he tripped the wires of a different field office in Alaska, which picked up the case.
Federal prosecutors have charged more than 1,000 defendants in what they call the &#8220;Capitol Breach,&#8221; and more than 65,000 legal documents have been filed in the cases, according to a Daily Wire database. Investigators and prosecutors have limited time, so it turns out that all that work likely comes at the expense of the cases they’d normally be handling.
The focus on January 6 prosecutions has coincided with U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia prosecutors, who because of D.C.’s unique status handle most local criminal violations in the city, increasingly deciding not to prosecute residents arrested by the Metropolitan Police Department — even as D.C. crime has gotten out of control.
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In 2020, before the Capitol event, the office declined to prosecute 35% of felonies and 52% of misdemeanors that were brought to them by local police. In 2021, as they focused on Capitol defendants, those numbers grew to 56% and 42%, according to <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao/resources/annual-statistical-reports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department Of Justice data</a>. In 2022, a whopping 72% of people who were arrested for misdemeanors in D.C., and 53% of would-be felons, found themselves going free because prosecutors simply didn’t bother to pursue their cases. The U.S. Attorney&#8217;s office has in part blamed a lack of an accredited crime lab to test drugs and DNA.
At the same time, life has gotten worse for D.C. residents. Violent crime is up by 39% compared to last year; homicide is up by 34%. In 2020, there were 360 carjackings in DC, according to <a href="https://mpdc.dc.gov/node/212492" target="_blank" rel="noopener">city police</a>.  So far in 2023, there have been 870.
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Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a nonprofit that has criticized the FBI for political bias, said the child pornography case shows that politicization of the FBI harms more than just conservatives targeted for their political beliefs. Now, he said, even totally apolitical people may suffer because the FBI won&#8217;t make prosecuting their victimizers a priority unless the case is politically advantageous.
“Cases that check the boxes, the concern is only those will get appropriate attention,” he told The Daily Wire. “When you use politics to guide your law enforcement priorities, it necessarily means that public safety takes a back seat.”
There are indications that other victims of child sexual abuse may not be getting justice because of the FBI&#8217;s political agenda. On Thursday, The Daily Wire reported that a Satan-worshipping cult of pedophiles is blackmailing girls into cutting themselves — but the FBI was interested in it only after they came up with a way to brand the cult as neo-Nazi white supremacists.
It assigned the domestic terrorism unit instead of the cybercrimes or sex crimes unit, and a witness said the agents seemed unfamiliar with how to investigate sex abuse cases and less interested in the majority of its victims, who were white and suffered horrific abuse, than in a black victim where there was a racial angle. It arrested one member in New York — a Hispanic man who called the judge a “cracker” in court — but maintained that he was a “neo-Nazi” white supremacist.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-satanist-pedophile-gang-is-torturing-kids-the-fbi-didnt-seem-to-care-unless-it-could-blame-white-supremacy">A Satanist Pedophile Gang Is Torturing Kids. The FBI Didn’t Seem To Care Unless It Could Blame White Supremacy.</a>
A typical January 6 case is that of three Marines, Joshua Abate, Michah Coomer, and Dodge Dale Hellonon. The <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/case-multi-defendant/file/1567496/download" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entirety of the allegations against them</a> is that at 2:20 p.m., they “entered the U.S. Capitol Building through the Senate Wing Door and proceed to walk South down a hallway,” used “their cellular devices to take pictures, videos, and answer phone calls,” “remained in the Rotunda for a couple minutes before leaving through the South entrance,” and remained “inside the Rotunda for approximately 30 minutes until police arrive and form a line to direct people out of the Building.” Then they exited “the U.S. Capitol Building through the Rotunda Door having been inside for approximately 52 minutes.” 
For that case, prosecutors scoured social media, subpoenaed Facebook, consulted motor vehicle and military records, interviewed people who served in the Marine Corps to identify them, subpoenaed his phone provider, and analyzed his GPS movements.
By comparison, in December 2022, rapper and gang member Jeremiah Evans pointed a gun at two people and <a href="https://wjla.com/news/local/shootings-dc-crime-jeremiah-evans-khalliqo-ford-akira-wilson-teen-murder-suspect-on-the-streets-after-earlier-shooting-charges-were-dropped-us-attorneys-office-southwest-library-greenleaf-gardens-southwest-dc-nra-no-rats-allowed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opened fire in front of a D.C. library</a>. Police arrested him, but the U.S. Attorney’s office declined to prosecute without explanation. Six months later, he was back on the same block with a gun again, and allegedly killed someone.

Stock photo of an abused boy (via Imgorthand) alongside January 6 protester Jacob Chansley (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The FBI Halted Probe Of Pedophile To Focus On January 6. Now He’s Accused Of Abusing A 10-Year-Old Boy.

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FBI Director Christopher Wray, speaking before Congress, warned that Hamas and other terrorist organizations might exploit the Israel-Hamas war to conduct attacks in the United States.
“In a year where the terrorism threat was already elevated, the ongoing war in the Middle East has raised the threat of an attack against Americans in the United States to a whole other level,” Wray stated. “Since October 7 we’ve seen a rogue’s gallery of foreign terrorist organizations call for attacks against Americans and our allies. Hezbollah expressed its support and praise for Hamas and threatened to attack U.S. interests in the Middle East. Al Qaeda issued its most specific call to attack the United States in the past five years. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula called on jihadists to attack Americans and Jewish people everywhere. ISIS urged its followers to target Jewish communities in the United States and Europe.”
“Given those calls for action, our most immediate concern is that individuals or small groups will draw twisted inspiration from the events in the Middle East to carry out attacks here at home,” he warned.
“On top of the so-called lone actor threat, we cannot and do not discount the possibility that Hamas, or another foreign terrorist organization, may exploit the current conflict to conduct attacks here on our own soil,” he stated. “We have kept our sights on Hamas and have multiple investigations into individuals affiliated with that foreign terrorist organization. And while historically, our Hamas cases have identified individuals here who are facilitating and financing terrorism overseas, we continue to scrutinize our intelligence to assess how that threat may be evolving.”
He noted Iran and other Islamist terror groups were also a threat as he continued, “But it’s not just Hamas; as I highlighted for this committee in my testimony last year Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, has directly or by hiring criminals, mounted assassination attempts against dissidents and high-ranking current or former U.S. officials, including right here on American soil.”
“Or take Hezbollah: Iran’s primary strategic partner, which has a history of raising money and seeking to obtain weapons here in the United States,” he noted. “FBI arrests in recent years also indicate Hezbollah has tried to seed operatives, establish infrastructure and engage in spying here domestically, raising our concern that they may be contingency planning for future operations in the United States. And while we are not currently tracking a specific plot, given that disturbing history, we are keeping a close eye on what impact recent events may have on those terrorist groups’ intentions here in the United States.”

Christopher Wray

FBI’s Wray Warns Of Hamas, Other Islamist Terror Groups Launching Attacks In U.S.

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Hezbollah

Islamists

Terrorists

Angel Almeida, who the FBI says is a pedophile with ties to white supremacy / Court records

A Satanist Pedophile Gang Is Torturing Kids. The FBI Didn’t Seem To Care Unless It Could Blame White Supremacy.

Pornography

Terrorism

Federal authorities on Monday <a href="https://www.insider.com/fbi-raid-rudy-giuliani-johnathan-buma-donald-trump-classified-2023-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> raided the California home of one of the FBI&#8217;s own special agents — who alleged Russian intelligence agents may have &#8220;compromised&#8221; Rudy Giuliani while he was working as the lawyer for former President Donald Trump.
A search warrant — reported on by Business Insider — states that authorities searched the Orange County home of FBI Special Agent Jonathan Buma on suspicion that he violated federal laws against mishandling classified information. A receipt for property seized under the search warrant reportedly included &#8220;classified material&#8221; and &#8220;possible classified material&#8221; among the confiscated items.
Scott Horton, an attorney for Buma, denied the allegations and the property receipt as false. He said authorities seized computers and other items at the residence. Business Insider reported the property listed included nine laptops, three smartwatches, six tablets, two phones, and one desktop computer — most of which Horton said belonged to Buma&#8217;s wife and their children.
&#8220;There was no classified information found by the raid,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I know that from talking to my client.&#8221;
Horton said authorities discovered his client&#8217;s unclassified whistleblower complaint.
Buma, a 15-year FBI agent specializing in counter-intelligence investigations, filed protected whistleblower disclosures in July to the Senate Judiciary Committee, claiming bureau mismanagement and retaliation.
He alleged the agency ordered him not to investigate Trump&#8217;s associates and shut down his most valuable confidential human sources. The 22-page disclosure also indicated Giuliani had been compromised by Russian intelligence as part of an attempt to help Trump by discrediting President Joe Biden.
Newsweek <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/fbi-raids-home-trump-whistleblower-johnathan-buma-1843737" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Buma said in his letter to Senate lawmakers that anonymous people within the bureau targeted him with retaliation by assigning him to &#8220;surveillance missions&#8221; unrelated to his post after he discovered an alleged relationship between Giuliani and Russian intelligence.
&#8220;I do not fully understand why I have been singled out for this treatment nor who exactly is driving it,&#8221; Buma wrote. &#8220;But my strong suspicion is that one or more of my sources provided truthful, accurate information that is harmful to a person or persons that higher ups in the Bureau are trying to shield.&#8221;
Horton said the raid was &#8220;designed to be in retaliation for the whistleblower complaints&#8221; and called the bureau&#8217;s search &#8220;very heavy harassment.&#8221;
&#8220;They deployed the level of personnel that would be customary for a major mafia figure for a single active-duty FBI agent suspected of having cooperated with a congressional investigation,&#8221; Horton told Business Insider. &#8220;That is his offense. This continues to raise grave concerns about how the bureau&#8217;s counter-intelligence activities targeting the Russian intelligence services are undermined by political shenanigans on the part of senior bureau management.&#8221;
The FBI has not issued a public comment and has reportedly previously declined to comment on Buma&#8217;s allegations.

FBI Headquarters In Washington D.C.

FBI Raids Home Of Bureau Whistleblower Suspected Of Mishandling Classified Documents

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Whistleblowers

The federal criminal investigation into New York City Democrat Mayor Eric Adams&#8217; 2021 campaign reportedly focuses in part around whether Adams, then-Brooklyn borough president, pressured New York Fire Department officials to sign off on a Turkish government construction project in the city despite safety concerns.
The news comes after FBI agents <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-seizes-eric-adams-phones-amid-federal-corruption-investigation">seized</a> Adams&#8217; electronic devices last week as part of their probe into whether his campaign conspired with the Turkish government to funnel illegal campaign donations into its coffers.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/12/nyregion/eric-adams-investigation-turkey-consulate.html">reported</a> that after he won the Democratic mayoral primary in the summer of 2021, he allegedly contacted then-Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro and pushed him to allow the Turkish government to at least have permission to occupy on a temporary basis their new high-rise consulate in Manhattan.
Adams&#8217; alleged intervention &#8220;paved the way&#8221; for Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan to preside over the grand opening of their 35-story tower in September 2021, the report said. Fire officials said that there were serious safety concerns with the building&#8217;s fire safety system. The building, which cost $300 million, is the country&#8217;s most expensive foreign mission project, the report said.
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“As a borough president, part of my routine role was to notify government agencies of issues on behalf of constituents and constituencies,” Adams said in a statement. “I have not been accused of wrongdoing, and I will continue to cooperate with investigators.”
Before seizing Adams&#8217; electronic devices last week, FBI agents <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-raids-brooklyn-home-of-nyc-mayors-chief-fundraiser-reports">executed</a> a search warrant on the home of Adams&#8217; chief fundraiser, Brianna Suggs, who was a campaign consultant for Adams. The agents have also interviewed multiple high-ranking officials who were involved in the approval process for the building, the report said.
“After learning of the federal investigation, it was discovered that an individual had recently acted improperly. In the spirit of transparency and cooperation, this behavior was immediately and proactively reported to investigators. The mayor has been and remains committed to cooperating in this matter,” Adams’ campaign attorney Boyd Johson said. “On Monday night, the FBI approached the mayor after an event. The mayor immediately complied with the FBI’s request and provided them with electronic devices. The mayor has not been accused of any wrongdoing and continues to cooperate with the investigation.”
Adams said that he had &#8220;nothing to hide.&#8221;

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Democratic New York City Mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/eric-adams" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eric Adams</a> was approached by FBI agents earlier this week who confiscated his cell phones as federal investigators probe allegations that the mayor’s 2021 campaign conspired with the Turkish government.
Adams was confronted by the FBI while walking on the street with his security detail, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/nyregion/adams-fbi-investigation-phones.html#:~:text=26%20p.m.%20ET-,F.B.I.,knowledge%20of%20the%20matter%20said." target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The agents proceeded to get into Adams’ SUV with the mayor before taking two cell phones and an iPad. The devices were returned to the mayor within days, two people with knowledge of the seizure told the Times, but it was unclear whether the FBI agents’ action was a part of the investigation into corruption allegations.
&#8220;After learning of the federal investigation, it was discovered that an individual had recently acted improperly. In the spirit of transparency and cooperation, this behavior was immediately and proactively reported to investigators. The mayor has been and remains committed to cooperating in this matter,&#8221; Adams&#8217; campaign attorney Boyd Johson <a href="https://twitter.com/HenryRosoff/status/1723081890322608586" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;On Monday night, the FBI approached the mayor after an event. The mayor immediately complied with the FBI&#8217;s request and provided them with electronic devices. The mayor has not been accused of any wrongdoing and continues to cooperate with the investigation.&#8221;
Last week, the FBI <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-launches-criminal-probe-into-whether-nyc-mayor-adams-received-illegal-donations-from-turkey-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> an investigation into whether Adams’ campaign received illegal donations from the Turkish government during his 2021 race. Following the news of the investigation, Adams canceled his plan to discuss illegal immigration and the border crisis with the Biden administration.
Campaign records reviewed by the New York Post show that Adams’ campaign accepted $6,000 from three donors who serve on a foundation’s board that is backed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son. The home of one of Adams’ top fundraisers, Brianna Suggs, was <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/11/02/metro/fbi-raids-home-of-top-mayor-eric-adams-fundraiser-brianna-suggs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raided</a> by the FBI last week as agents sought evidence of whether Adams’ campaign conspired with the Turkish government via a Brooklyn construction company.
The FBI warrant to search Suggs’ home also sought proof of donations made from a D.C. college, Bay Atlantic University, whose founder is Turkish, according to the Times. Agents reportedly seized multiple iPhones and laptops and numerous documents from Suggs’ home, including a folder labeled “Eric Adams.” The raid was purposely conducted while Adams was out of the city, law enforcement sources told the Post.
&#8220;As a former member of law enforcement, I expect all members of my staff to follow the law and fully cooperate with any sort of investigation—and I will continue to do exactly that,&#8221; Adams <a href="https://twitter.com/HenryRosoff/status/1723081890322608586" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;I have nothing to hide,&#8221;
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Adams has recently been a thorn in the side of the Biden administration, constantly calling on the president and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas to do more to address the border crisis as New York City is overrun with illegal immigrants.

FBI Seizes Eric Adams’ Phones Amid Federal Corruption Investigation

FBI Seizes Eric Adams' Phones Amid Federal Corruption Investigation

Federal authorities have launched a criminal public corruption investigation into whether the 2021 election campaign of New York City Democrat Mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/eric-adams" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eric Adams</a> conspired with a foreign government to receive illegal donations.
The New York Times obtained a copy of the search warrant that the FBI used when it <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-raids-brooklyn-home-of-nyc-mayors-chief-fundraiser-reports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raided</a> the Brooklyn home of Adams&#8217; top fund-raiser, Brianna Suggs. The investigation is focused on determining whether the campaign conspired with the Turkish government to receive illegal campaign contributions.
Investigators sought information about a local construction company with ties to Turkey and a university in Washington, D.C., with ties to Turkey and Adams, the report said.
The search warrant also indicated that authorities were looking at whether the campaign &#8220;kicked back benefits to the construction company’s officials and employees, and to Turkish officials,&#8221; the report added.
Investigators were looking into whether foreign campaign contributions were given through a  scheme where the donations were made in the names of people who did not donate the money, the report said. Authorities were also investigating potential theft of federal funds, conspiracy to steal federal funds, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
The Times noted that Adams has bragged about how close he is to Turkey, saying that he had visited Turkey probably more than any other mayor in NYC history.
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The FBI seized multiple iPhones and laptops and numerous documents and other pieces of evidence from Suggs&#8217; home, including a folder labeled &#8220;Eric Adams&#8221; and seven “contribution card binders,” the report said.
While Adams has not been accused of any wrongdoing, he immediately canceled all meetings he had Thursday morning in Washington, D.C, where he planned to address the Biden administration about how its illegal immigration crisis is ruining New York City.
“The mayor heard of an issue related to the campaign and takes these issues seriously, so wanted to get back to New York as quickly as possible,” said Adams spokesman Fabien Levy. “He plans to return to D.C. and reschedule these meetings as soon as he can.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senator-menendez-charged-with-acting-as-a-foreign-agent">Senator Menendez Charged With Acting As A ‘Foreign Agent’</a>

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Federal agents raided the home of the chief fundraiser for New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday as Adams reportedly canceled several meetings in Washington, D.C, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/nyregion/eric-adams-brianna-suggs-fbi-raid.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The New York Times.
Brianna Suggs, a campaign consultant for Adams, reportedly had her Brooklyn residence searched by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation&#8217;s public corruption program, which investigates violations of federal law by public officials.
&#8220;I heard screaming maybe two or three hours ago,&#8221; one neighbor <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/11/02/metro/fbi-raids-home-of-top-mayor-eric-adams-fundraiser-brianna-suggs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The New York Post. &#8220;I heard helicopters (also) … the house is boarded up.&#8221;
An FBI spokesman confirmed to the Times that authorities were at Suggs&#8217; home &#8220;carrying out law enforcement action.&#8221;
Suggs has raised approximately $2.5 million for Adams&#8217; 2025 re-election campaign, which has paid her and her political consulting company, Suggs Solutions, nearly $100,000, according to city records reviewed by the Times. During his first mayoral campaign, the operation paid Suggs more than $50,000.
Suggs also earned approximately $100,000 from Striving for a Better New York, a political action committee that supports state candidates who align with Adams&#8217; policies, the outlet reported.
According to campaign finance filings reviewed by the Post, Suggs also received more than $16,500 in personal payments from Adams&#8217; accounts.
Vito Pitta, a spokesperson for Adams&#8217; 2021 campaign, told the Post that it &#8220;has always held itself to the highest standards.&#8221;
&#8220;The campaign will, of course, comply with any inquiries as appropriate,&#8221; Pitta said.
Charles Kretchmer Lutvak, a spokesman for Adams, told the Times the mayor&#8217;s office was unaware of the raid.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not aware of that,&#8221; Lutvak said, adding that the city did not employ Suggs.
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Adams left for Washington, D.C., on Thursday morning to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-mayors-request-urgent-meeting-with-biden-over-influx-of-illegal-immigrants-into-their-cities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">meet</a> with officials from the Biden administration to discuss the mass influx of illegal immigrants in New York City.
The Democratic mayor joined two other left-wing city officials — including Brandon Johnson of Chicago and Mike Johnston of Denver — to ask for additional federal funding and expedited approval for illegal migrants to begin working in their cities.
Adams pledged to keep the public informed about his trip to the nation&#8217;s capital until he abruptly canceled the meetings to return to New York City.
Officials from City Hall declined to explain why.
&#8220;The mayor is returning to New York City to address a matter,&#8221; Lutvak said in an email to the Times when reportedly asked why the mayor was returning to the city earlier than expected. &#8220;These meetings will be rescheduled as soon as possible.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> Director Christopher Wray warned this week that the U.S. is facing an increased risk of terrorist attacks after Palestinian Islamic terrorists massacred 1,400 Israelis last month.
Wray made the remarks during his opening statement while testifying in front of the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
The hearing centered around the most pressing national security threats to the U.S. and what federal agencies are doing to confront those challenges.
&#8220;It seems especially well-timed this year with the dangerous implications the very fluid situation in the Middle East has for our homeland security,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The reality is that the terrorism threat has been elevated throughout 2023, but the ongoing war in the Middle East has raised the threat of an attack against Americans in the United States to a whole nother level.&#8221;
&#8220;Since the horrific terrorist attacks committed by Hamas against innocent people in Israel a few weeks ago, we’ve been working around the clock to support our partners there and to protect Americans here at home,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We assess that the actions of Hamas and its allies will serve as an inspiration the likes of which we haven’t seen since ISIS launched its so-called caliphate several years ago. In just the past few weeks, multiple foreign terrorist organizations have called for attacks against Americans and the West. Al-Qaeda issued its most specific call to attack the United States in the last five years. ISIS urged its followers to target Jewish communities in the United States and Europe. Hezbollah has publicly expressed its support for Hamas and threatened to attack U.S. interests in the Middle East, and we’ve seen an increase in attacks on U.S. military bases overseas carried out by militia groups backed by Iran.&#8221;
He said that in the U.S., the top concerns that officials have are individuals who might be inspired by what they saw happen and who decide to launch their own attacks.
&#8220;We cannot and do not discount the possibility that Hamas or another foreign terrorist organization may exploit the current conflict to conduct attacks here on our own soil,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We have kept our sights on Hamas and have multiple ongoing investigations into individuals affiliated with that foreign terrorist organization. And while historically, our Hamas cases have identified individuals located here who are facilitating and financing Hamas’ terrorism overseas, we’re continuing to scrutinize our intelligence to assess how the threat may be evolving.&#8221;
&#8220;But it’s not just Hamas,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;As the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, the Iranians, for instance, have directly, or by hiring criminals, mounted assassination attempts against dissidents and high-ranking current and former U.S. government officials, including right here on American soil. And along those lines, Hezbollah, Iran’s primary strategic partner, has a history of seeding operatives and infrastructure, obtaining money and weapons, and spying in this country going back years. Given that disturbing history, we are keeping a close eye on what impact recent events may have on those groups’ intentions here in the United States and how those intentions might evolve. For example, the cyber targeting of American interests and critical infrastructure that we already see conducted by Iran and non-state actors alike, we can expect to get worse if the conflict expands, as will the threat of kinetic attacks. But across the country, in each and every one of the FBI’s 56 field offices, we are addressing these threats with a sense of urgency.&#8221;
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FBI agents on Tuesday returned to the home where four University of Idaho students were murdered nearly a year ago.
The trial for the 28-year-old man accused of killing the students has been “delayed indefinitely&#8221; after the suspect waived his right to a speedy trial, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/fbi-returns-idaho-home-bryan-kohberger-allegedly-murdered-four-college-students.amp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The trial was initially set to start in early October but now has no start date. The suspect, who is not being named by The Daily Wire, has been charged with four counts of murder and one count of burglary relating to the murders.
The FBI returned to the crime scene to gather more evidence, the University of Idaho said in a statement.
&#8220;With the new extended timeline, the FBI is on scene today, Tuesday, Oct. 31, and Wednesday, Nov. 1, to get documentation to construct visual and audio exhibits and a physical model of the home where Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves were killed,&#8221; the statement said.
&#8220;As explained to the university, the visual displays take months to build and were not feasible under the timeline of an October trial. While the measurements and details needed to build a model were taken at the time of the initial investigation, the FBI is using this extended trial timeline to gather their own measurements and images now that the personal property has been removed from the premises,&#8221; the university added.
The house was set to be demolished and had plywood covering the windows, which will be removed as the FBI gathers additional evidence. The house will still be demolished, but not this semester. The university also intends to build a “healing garden” to honor the four student victims.
The suspect&#8217;s attorneys filed a motion earlier this year requesting that the indictment against the accused be dismissed, claiming that the grand jury was biased, given inadmissible evidence, and didn’t use the correct legal standard when indicting, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/bryan-kohberger-idaho-killings-college-students-61bfffa2ca5ada6a581fbbe7d0b7c6d6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The hearing for these claims was held behind closed doors in late October, except for the allegations of an improper legal standard due to Idaho law about keeping grand jury details secret.
Idaho 2nd District Judge John Judge <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/accused-idaho-murderer-tried-to-get-his-case-dismissed-a-judge-just-said-no" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rejected</a> the argument that the grand jury should have used the “reasonable doubt” standard – as is required in the actual criminal trial – instead of the “probable cause” standard that is legally permissible in a grand jury, which does not hear the full evidence as a trial jury would.
Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson has said he intends to seek the death penalty against the suspect.
The suspect is connected to the murders through DNA found on a knife sheath that had been left behind at the crime scene, according to authorities.
In early August, his attorneys <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/accused-university-of-idaho-killer-offers-alibi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offered an alibi</a> for the suspect’s whereabouts on the night of the murder, saying he was out driving late at night.
“[The suspect] has long had a habit of going for drives alone. Often he would go for drives at night. He did so late on November 12 and into November 13, 2022,” Anne Taylor, the suspect’s attorney, wrote in the filing. “[The suspect] is not claiming to be at a specific location at a specific time; at this time there is not a specific witness to say precisely where [my client] was at each moment of the hours between late night November 12, 2022, and early morning November 13, 2022. He was out, driving during the late night and early morning hours of November 12-13, 2022.”
Part of the evidence that led to the suspect’s arrest, mentioned in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-police-captured-the-man-suspected-of-killing-four-university-of-idaho-students" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously unsealed</a> probable cause affidavit, showed that police were able to narrow the timeframe of the crime to between 4:00 a.m. and 4:25 a.m. and reviewed video footage taken in the area in the time before and after the murders are believed to have occurred. The footage showed a white Hyundai Elantra without a front license plate (front license plates are required in Washington and Idaho, but not in Pennsylvania, where the car was registered) in the area between 3:29 a.m. and 4:20 a.m.
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The vehicle can be seen passing the off-campus residence three times before returning a fourth time around 4:04 a.m. and attempting to turn around on the road. The vehicle was next seen around 4:20 a.m. traveling away from the direction of the off-campus residence at high speed, heading in the direction of a road that eventually leads to Pullman, Washington, where the suspect attended Washington State University (WSU).
Video footage from the WSU campus showed a white Hyundai Elantra leaving the area and heading toward Moscow at around 2:53 a.m. This vehicle was again observed on five cameras in Pullman and the WSU campus at around 5:25 a.m.
Police pulled records for white Hyundai Elantras registered at WSU on November 29 – just over two weeks after the murders were committed – and found one belonging to the man who was eventually arrested. Police reviewed the owner’s Washington state driver’s license and determined he matched the suspect’s physical description provided by one of the surviving roommates.
Police matched the suspect to the vehicle through two previous traffic stops in the months before the murders. They also learned that the suspect registered his car in Washington and received Washington plates on November 18 – five days after the murders.
In a previous filing, the suspect’s attorneys claimed that DNA found at the crime scene may have been planted by police.
“The State’s argument asks this Court and [the suspect] to assume – is that the DNA on the sheath was placed there by [the suspect], and not someone else during an investigation that spans hundreds of members of law enforcement and apparently at least one lab the State refuses to name,” the suspect’s defense attorneys wrote.

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