By The Guardian
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An ambitious hotel developer held multiple, previously unreported fundraisers with the New York City mayor, Eric Adams, and provided benefits to several of the mayor’s longtime associates. She then scored behind-the-scenes favors and millions more in city contract dollars from his administration, a new investigation by the Guardian US, the City and Documented has found.
That fundraiser, Weihong Hu, was previously the subject of a February investigation by this reporting partnership which unearthed allegations that Hu’s family secretly bankrolled illegal donations to Adams’s re-election campaign.
Now a review of thousands of pages of city and business records and interviews with more than 20 sources – including Hu’s former associates and current and former government officials – demonstrates that the businesswoman went beyond suspect campaign donations: she bought her way into Adams’s inner circle and leveraged her newfound political pull with his administration. READ MORE…
