These business leaders secretly funded Mayor Eric Adams’s re-election effort, donors say

Three donors say that they - and, in two cases, their spouses - were reimbursed for donations to the New York City mayor's 2025 campaign, a tactic that violates state law

Political contributions to New York mayor Eric Adams totaling more than $10,000 were secretly bankrolled by business people tied to the city's hotel and construction industries, according to three individuals listed as donors in government records.

These gifts to Adams's 2025 re-election fund appear to be illegal straw donations" masking the identities of the people who actually paid for the contributions, a joint media investigation by The City, Documented and the Guardian US has found.