Erden Arkan, aka "Businessman-5," pled guilty to making 10 straw donations to the Eric Adams 2021 mayoral campaign. Arkan wrote checks to 10 employees, each of them for $1,250, who then donated to ...

Erden Arkan, a Turkish national and businessman named in Mayor Eric Adams’ federal indictment, became the first individual to plead guilty in the case on Friday. Arkan, who operates KSK ...

Erden Arkan pleads guilty to helping set up illegal contributions for Eric Adams' campaign New York Mayor Eric Adams during a State of the City address at The Apollo Theater in Manhattan on Thursday.

The businessman, Erden Arkan, is one of two people who have been charged in relation to a sprawling corruption case against Mr. Adams unveiled last year, and the first to plead guilty.

Erden Arkan, a co-owner of the luxury construction firm KSK, has been accused of collaborating with a Turkish government official to funnel illegal campaign contributions to Adams. Why It Matters ...

Erden Arkan, an owner of Williamsburg-based KSK Construction, will plead guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for organizing straw donations to Eric Adams' 2021 campaign, prosecutors said.

Erden Arkan, a wealthy construction magnate, has indicated that he wants to plead guilty, prosecutors said in a letter sent to the judge presiding over the case against Adams, along with the judge ...

The indictment details an April 2021 dinner organized by the Turkish official in which Adams personally solicited illegal campaign contributions from Arkan - identified in court papers only as ...

News; Nation/World; Turkish businessman pleads guilty in NYC Mayor Adams’ corruption case, could testify against mayor Jan. 10, 2025 Updated Sat., Jan. 11, 2025 at 7:47 p.m. Erden Arkan, center ...