New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted by a federal grand jury on criminal charges.

The indictment, which is expected to be unsealed today, Thursday, marks the culmination of a months-long investigation into the mayor’s alleged involvement in a web of corruption and illegal foreign donations, potentially implicating powerful interests spanning across six foreign nations.

While the details of the charges remain under wraps for now, sources close to the investigation revealed that Adams is suspected of accepting illegal contributions from foreign countries, including Turkey, Israel, China, Qatar, South Korea, and Uzbekistan.

The allegations have already triggered a crisis within the mayor’s administration, leading to the raids, resignations of several top officials, and a barrage of subpoenas.

Here is a timeline of events in the federal investigation into Mayor Eric Adams and his inner circle via ABC 7 NY:

• • November 2, 2023 – The FBI launches a major investigation into Mayor Eric Adams’ 2021 campaign, starting with a search of key figures’ homes. Federal agents search the Brooklyn residence of Brianna Suggs, a top fundraiser for Adams, and the New Jersey home of Rana Abbasova, the mayor’s international affairs aide. That same day, Adams flies to Washington, D.C., only to abruptly return to New York, canceling meetings scheduled with the White House.

• • November 6, 2023 – Mayor Adams faces direct scrutiny as the FBI seizes his personal electronic devices, including his iPad and cell phone. Sources indicate that investigators are looking into whether Adams’ campaign received illegal foreign donations from Turkey.

• • February 29, 2024 – The FBI continues its investigation, this time focusing on Winnie Greco, Adams’ Director of Asian Affairs. Federal agents search her Bronx home as part of the ongoing probe.

• • April 5, 2024 – The FBI is investigating whether Mayor Adams received free upgrades on Turkish Airlines flights during his 2021 mayoral campaign,

• • July 2024 – The federal investigation heats up, with grand jury subpoenas issued to Adams in what sources describe as a corruption probe. Prosecutors are reportedly looking into whether the mayor’s campaign pressured the fire department to expedite inspections of the new Turkish consulate in exchange for donations from Turkey.

• • September 4, 2024 – The investigation reaches Adams’ inner circle. FBI agents search the homes of First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright and her fiancé, Schools Chancellor David Banks, who had his phones seized. They also search the Queens home of Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Phil Banks, along with business consultant Terence Banks, confiscating various electronic devices.

• • September 5, 2024 – Four high-ranking NYPD officials, including NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban and his twin brother James Caban, are subpoenaed by federal investigators. Tim Pearson, a close advisor to Mayor Adams, also has his phone seized.

• • September 12, 2024 – Commissioner Caban resigns, citing the ongoing investigations as a “distraction” to the city’s work. His departure signals further fallout from the expanding probe.

• • September 14, 2024 – Lisa Zornberg, Chief Counsel at City Hall, resigns after advising Mayor Adams on legal strategy for over a year. In a brief letter, Zornberg states she can no longer serve effectively in her role, raising questions about the legal stability surrounding the Adams administration.

• • September 16, 2024 – The FBI arrests two retired FDNY chiefs, Brian Cordasco and Anthony Saccavino, as part of a year-long corruption investigation connected to the probe into Mayor Adams’ administration.

• • September 20, 2024 – Federal prosecutors issue a subpoena to Molly Schaeffer, the director overseeing New York City’s Office for Asylum Seekers, further expanding the scope of the investigation into City Hall operations.

• • September 21, 2024 – Federal agents search the home of Interim NYPD Commissioner Thomas Donlon. Though Donlon claims the search is unrelated to the police department, its timing raises eyebrows.

• • September 23, 2024 – New York City Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan announces his resignation, effective by January 2025. Vasan insists his decision is to spend more time with family and denies any connection to the federal investigation.

• • September 24, 2024 – Another major figure steps down as New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks announces his retirement, adding to the growing list of high-level resignations amid the ongoing probe.

• • September 24, 2024 – The FBI expanded its investigation into possible illegal foreign donations, focusing on Adams’ suspicious connections with at least six foreign countries, including Turkey, Israel, China, Qatar, South Korea, and Uzbekistan.

• • September 25, 2024 – Mayor Eric Adams is indicted by a grand jury in the federal corruption investigation, marking a pivotal moment in the probe that has rocked his administration.

This comes after Adams has slammed Biden’s border policy indirectly by claiming that the migrant crisis is ‘destroying’ the city.

Recall that Mayor Adams, who was en route to Washington DC, to complain to the Biden regime about New York’s migrant crisis after five Democratic mayors sent a letter to Biden, was informed of the raid while in transit. In a swift response, he canceled his meetings and made an immediate return to New York.

Democrat Mayor Eric Adams was on his way to Washington DC to complain to the Obama/Biden regime about New York’s migrant crisis so the FBI raided the home of his top fundraiser AT THE SAME TIME.

Adams canceled the meetings and returned to NYC.

See how this works?

— Emerald Robinson (@EmeraldRobinson) November 2, 2023

Last December, New York City Mayor Eric Adams went to Washington, DC, for the 10th time to plead for help from Biden but admitted, “help is not on its way.”

“I did not leave with optimism,” Adams said to reporters.

“I left with the cold reality that help is not on the way in the immediate future. It is going to be, at this moment, it’s going to be up to New Yorkers and this administration to continue to navigate this challenge that we’re facing.”

We did not ask for this national crisis and we will do our part to help resolve it — but we can’t do it alone.

— Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) December 8, 2023

In a defiant video statement recorded at his official residence, Adams addressed the charges head-on, refusing to step down from his position.

He vehemently denied the charges, calling them “entirely false” and “based on lies.”

He has portrayed himself as the target of a politically motivated witch hunt, accusing Biden’s federal government of retaliating against him for his outspoken criticism of Washington’s handling of immigration policies.

Transcript of his statement:

“My fellow New Yorkers, it is now my belief that the federal government intends to charge me with crimes. If so, these charges will be entirely false, based on lies. But they would not be surprising. I always knew that if I stood my ground for all of you, I would become a target, and a target I became.

For months, leaks and rumors have been aimed at me in an attempt to undermine my credibility and paint me as guilty. Just this past week, they searched the home of our new police commissioner, looking for documents from 20 years ago, just one week after he joined my administration. Enough.

I will fight these injustices with every ounce of my strength and spirit. If I’m charged, I know I am innocent. I will request an immediate trial so New Yorkers can hear the truth.

New Yorkers know my story. They know where I come from. I have been fighting injustice my entire life. That fight has continued as your mayor.

Despite our police, when the federal government did nothing as its broken immigration policies overloaded the shelter system with no relief, I put the people of New York before party and politics.”

Now, if I am charged, many may say I should resign because I cannot manage the city while fighting the case. I can also understand how everyday New Yorkers would be concerned that I cannot do my job while I face accusations.

But I have been facing these lies for months, ever since I began to speak out for all of you and their investigation started. Yet, the city has continued to improve.

Make no mistake, you elected me to lead this city, and lead it, I will. I humbly ask for your prayers and your patience as we see this through. God bless you, and God bless the city of New York.”

WATCH:

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Guest post by Joe Hoft at JoeHoft.com and AbleChild. republished with permission

In 1970 a lawmaker wanted to know if the federal government had a hand in drugging school-age children that largely has today remained an unspoken, well-funded, uncontrolled clinical drug trial.

September 29, 1970, New Jersey Congressman Cornelis E. Gallagher held a hearing into the federal government’s role in promoting the use of amphetamines and Ritalin as behavior modification of grammar school children. Fifty-four years later, AbleChild applauds Representative Gallagher for presiding over the House Special Studies Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations investigation as it was one of the first hearings to draw attention to the government’s funding of experimental drug research using school-age children.

Gallagher wanted to know from the experts how it was okay to drug children with amphetamines and Ritalin to modify behavior in school, while at the same time pushing an active national campaign against drug abuse stating that “speed kills.” The Congressman was concerned about whether the drug therapy being used by the child would become a permanent part of the child’s school record, thus years later negatively impacting the child’s life. And, finally, the Congressman raised concerns “about the mislabeling of the child and packaging an ill-conceived program as an answer to our ills in the education of our children.”

At the time of the 1970 hearing, researchers were then labeling hyperactive children with Minimal Brain Dysfunction (MDA), then renaming it as Hyperkinetic disorder (HKD) or Hyperkinesis and finally settling on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). At the time of the hearing, none of the experts testifying could provide any scientific data proving the alleged brain abnormality existed. Still, fifty-four years later, there is no science to prove the alleged brain abnormality ADHD exists.

Ironically, one of the experts that testified at 1970 hearing warned that the drug therapy would “zoom” from its then usage in approximately 200 to 300 thousand American children. The prophecy was fulfilled. In 2020 alone, 9,585,203 Americans were taking some form of psychiatric mind-altering drug as “treatment” for the alleged ADHD. Almost four and a half million Americans between the ages of 0 and 24 alone were prescribed ADHD drugs in 2020.

The “experts” testifying before Gallagher’s subcommittee were as clueless then as the “experts” are today when it comes to any understanding of how the drugs worked as “treatment.” For example, Dr. Ronald Lipman testified during the 1970 hearing that “I think there are many gaps in our present knowledge. I don’t think we know as much about the neurological mechanisms underlying the action of these drugs as we might.”

If Lipman were being honest, he would have admitted that the “experts” then, like today, simply did not know how the drugs “work” as “treatment” for the alleged MDA, Hyperkinesis or ADHD. After all, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which approves drugs for use, the mode of action for Ritalin (methylphenidate) still, fifty-four years later, “is unclear.” The same is true for amphetamines as the FDA reports “the exact mechanism of amphetamines as a class is not known.”

But the real threat came from the parents of children who provided testimony about the coercion and harassment experienced at the hands of school officials to have their children referred or recruited into a drug program. The issue, as explained by those testifying, was that this kind of coercion on the part of school officials became a kind of uncontrolled drug experiment.

Again, moving forward, nothing has changed in fifty-four years, only accelerated. Gallagher reported during the hearing that the federal government had appropriated $3 million in grants for mental health research in 1970. A funding amount that today would be referred to as budget dust. But the funding increased exponentially and, as of 2020, the federal government spends an estimated $280 billion annually on mental health services.

And, like those raising concerns back in 1970 about schools becoming involved in the drugging of children to modify behavior, the same concerns are being raised today. The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act will dump hundreds of millions of dollars into School-based mental health, including implementing, enhancing, and expanding school-based mental health programs. Reading, writing, and drugging.

These school-based mental health programs were exactly what Congressman Gallagher feared would happen if federal mental health funding was left unchecked. The only difference is that fifty-four years after Gallagher’s insightful hearing, parents and students are not necessarily coerced or harassed into participating in a drug experiment but, rather, are joyfully encouraged to take advantage of the services freely provided by government funding.

Either way, children who participate in this new school-based mental health scheme still are part of an uncontrolled drug experiment paid for by federal funding. And two other things have not changed. There still is no science to support ADHD as a brain abnormality or any other psychiatric disorder, and the FDA still has no idea how the drugs used as “treatment” actually “work” in the brain.

Gallagher would be rolling in his grave if he knew the federal government’s involvement in child drugging. In 2023, the federal government provided funding to the tune of $131.7 million in grant programs that connect youth and families to behavioral health services and $55 million to expand access to mental health care for young people, including access to mental health care in schools.

It’s fair to say that Gallagher knew too well that this mental health train wreck would occur. Sadly, despite Gallagher’s efforts to ensure the federal government would not contribute to, or participate in, any school program that would contribute to the drugging of children, today it is almost completely the federal government that pays for mental health research in the form of grants and hundreds of millions of dollars appropriated directly to mental health programs in schools.

Make no mistake, the largest funder of research on mental health disorders is the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and Medicaid is the single largest payer for mental health services in the U.S. It should be no surprise then that the total private investment that flows into mental health services from all private sources amounts to approximately $65 million, leaving one to conclude that if it weren’t for federal taxpayer dollars, the mental health industry would be non-existent.

And, as Gallagher and his committee anticipated, school-age children are being drugged at ever-increasing numbers and, sadly, mental health services continue to be federally funded at new highs every year. The problem, of course, is that despite more than fifty years of government funded mental health and drug research, no one is getting better. Seems like it’s time for another hearing.

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Guest post by Jefferson Davis

President Donald Trump is not scheduled to meet with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky this week during his trip to the United States.

Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Democrats, and Republican warmongers are intent on expanding Ukraine and NATO’s war against Russia.

President Trump wants peace. Globalist elites and their Democrat cohorts find Trump’s position unpalatable. They demand more war.

According to Russia Today, there is no meeting scheduled between Zelensky and Putin.

This comes after Zelensky campaigned against President Trump while traveling the US with Democrats this week.

While Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is in the United States begging for more U.S. taxpayer dollars and munitions, he appears to be using some of his time to stump for the Harris campaign and attack Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance on American soil.

Zelensky also joined Harris surrogate Democrat Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro for a tour of an ammunition factory in the Keystone State.

Zelensky had time for a sitdown interview with The New Yorker and directly went after Trump and Vance.

“My feeling is that Trump doesn’t really know how to stop the war even if he might think he knows how,” Zelensky said in the interview.

“With this war, oftentimes, the deeper you look at it the less you understand. I’ve seen many leaders who were convinced they knew how to end it tomorrow, and as they waded deeper into it, they realized it’s not that simple.”

Zelensky also belittled Vance, calling him “way too radical.”

US taxpayers have given $175 billion to Zelensky during his war with Russia. The US has no idea where the money went.

President Trump attacked Zelensky while he met with leaders at the UN this week.

Trump on Wednesday accused Zelensky of refusing to “make a deal” to end his country’s war with Russia.

France24 reported:

“We continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refuses to make a deal, Zelensky,” the Republican White House candidate said in sharply critical remarks at a campaign rally in North Carolina.

“Every time he came to our country, he’d walk away with $60 billion,” Trump said, derisively describing the Ukrainian president as “probably the greatest salesman on Earth.”

“What do you have left now?” Trump sneered. “The country is absolutely obliterated.”

The Biden-Harris regime is planning to announce an eye-watering $8 billion in military aid for Ukraine during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Washington.

According to sources from Reuters, the U.S. government is scrambling to finalize a $5.6 billion military aid package from existing American weapons stocks before the September 30 fiscal year-end deadline.

This handout to Ukraine will be part of a larger $8 billion aid plan, which includes $2.4 billion under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, allowing Biden’s regime to purchase more weapons from defense contractors for Ukraine, rather than pulling from already depleted U.S. reserves.

Read more:

JUST IN: Biden-Harris Regime Prepares Another $8 Billion in Military Aid for Ukraine During Zelensky’s Washington Visit—While Americans Struggle, Ukraine Gets Billions!

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WORLD WAR III UPDATE: The globalist left moved the world closer to nuclear war on Wednesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with officials on Wednesday and announced changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine.

Putin lowered the threshold regarding Russian strategic forces’ use of nukes.

In a televised address to Russia’s Security Council, Putin said nuclear doctrine has been effectively revised in light of recent developments.

Putin warned NATO in his message to top Russian leaders after meetings on Wednesday.

Vladimir Putin: “The updated version of the document proposes that aggression against Russia by any non-nuclear weapons state but with the participation or support of a nuclear weapon state should be regarded as a joint attack on the Russian federation.

The conditions for Russia’s transition to the use of nuclear weapons are also clearly defined. We will consider such a possibility as soon as we receive reliable information about a massive launch of aerospace attack NEDS and their crossing of our state border. Meaning strategic or tactical aircraft, cruise missiles, drones, hypersonic missiles and other aircraft…

…We reserve the right to use nuclear weapons in the event of aggression against Russia and Belarus as a member of the union state. All of these agreements have been agreed upon with the Belarussian side and with the president of Belarus.

The Gateway Pundit reported last week that Vladimir Putin warned that the NATO approval would change the essence of the conflict. Putin also warned that Kiev would be destroyed.

Vladimir Putin: The key is that only NATO servicemen can enter flight assignments into these missile systems. Ukrainian servicemen cannot do this.

And so this is not about allowing the Ukrainian regime to strike Russia with these weapons or not. It’s about deciding whether NATO countries are directly involved in the military conflict or not.

If this decision is made it will mean nothing other than the direct participation of NATO countries, the United States, European countries, in the war in Ukraine. This is their direct participation and this already significantly changes the very essence and the very nature of the conflict…

This would mean that NATO countires, the United States are at war with Russia.

Read more:

World War III Watch: Russia Threatens to Wipe Kiev Off the Map If Biden and NATO Send Ukraine Long Range Missiles to Fire Deep Inside Russia

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