Live updates on Eric Adams indictment: NYC mayor charged with bribery

Adams failed to disclose his free and discounted trips, created false records to make it appear he had paid for them, claimed to an employee that he had deleted his text messages and instructed the employee to ensure his activities in Turkey remained shielded from the public in 2021, prosecutors alleged.

Adams and his co-conspirators, whose names are not mentioned in the indictment, “continued their efforts to avoid scrutiny of their criminal conduct after they became aware of the federal investigation into these crimes,” the indictment states.

Last November, when FBI agents knocked on her door to execute a search warrant, Adams' fundraiser called the mayor five times, and Adams later called her as the agents left her apartment, the indictment says. The fundraiser refused to tell the agents who paid for her 2021 trip to Turkey, the indictment says.

Adams was in Washington, DC at the time, but canceled the meeting when he learned of the search and promptly returned to New York. A few days later, the FBI executed a search warrant for Adams' electronic devices. According to the indictment, Adams produced two cell phones, but not the personal one he used in connection with his alleged crimes. Adams later surrendered the phone in response to a subpoena, but it was locked and required a password that Adams allegedly forgot, the indictment states.