Lawfare Daily: Mayor Adams, the Feds, and a Whole Lot of Foreign Money
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
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🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
New York Mayor Eric Adams is facing indictment in connection with a foreign influence scheme involving Turkey. It’s the latest in a long string of actions by the Justice Department to counter foreign efforts to interfere in the American political system. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Managing Editor Tyler McBrien, Senior Editor Quinta Jurecic, and Contributing Editor Brandon Van Grack to discuss the charges against Adams and the larger pattern of which they are a part.
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| 1:00.2 | Lice capital, Capital at Risk. This is not something where foreign governments all of the sudden in 2015 decided, you know what we should |
| 1:12.2 | start trying to influence policy get access to people |
| 1:15.8 | in the population. |
| 1:17.2 | What has changed is that the US government now considers issues like foreign interference and |
| 1:23.1 | influenced by a foreign government to be a national security issue. |
| 1:27.8 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the Law Fair Podcast with Managing editor Tyler McBrien, senior editor Quinta Jurisic |
| 1:38.1 | and contributing editor Brandon Van Grack. |
| 1:41.8 | Adams had a very, very narrow victory in a very, you know, tightly contested race. |
| 1:50.0 | And so it is extremely conceivable to me that this money could have really given Adams |
| 1:56.2 | a potential edge here. |
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