Mayor Eric Adams planned to collect campaign donations in Turkey for his 2025 re-election bid, according to newly unsealed documents from his high-profile corruption case.
The extensive filing, obtained by The Post Friday night, showed that Hizzoner attended a lavish January 2022 dinner with two staffers, where he expressed interest in visiting Turkey to solicit additional funds from local businessmen for his mayoral race.
Adams “welcomed the offer of foreign contributions” — and told his staff in a private area to coordinate and “arrange the contributions,” the filing states.
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The scorching detail was included in court documents when Adams was indicted last September — when he became the first sitting New York City mayor to face criminal charges.
Though the 1,785 pages of court filings — made public after The Post and other outlets fought for access — shed some light on Adams’ murky plans when federal prosecutors requested a warrant for the mayor’s electronic communications during their investigation.
The court filings also exposed Adams’ alleged efforts to block federal investigators from accessing his personal cellphone after a September 2024 raid at Gracie Mansion uncovered a stash of electronics — including a satellite phone on his nightstand.
Adams’ longtime girlfriend, Tracey Collins — who had a cushy high-ranking six-figure position in the Big Apple’s Department of Education — allegedly helped arrange admission for the Turkish Consul General’s child into MS 255 Salk School of Science, one of New York City’s most competitive and sought after schools, court filings revealed.
The feds recovered alleged text messages detailing the admission scheme after executing a search warrant on two iPhones.
Collins, who retired from her position working as senior adviser to Schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos in November, was described in court papers as taking trips to India, Hungary, Turkey, Jordan, Oman and Ghana with Adams starting in 2016.
She was never charged with a crime.
Adams was hit with a five-count indictment accusing him of accepting tens of thousands of dollars in luxury travel from foreign officials seeking to buy influence at City Hall.
The historic case was controversially dismissed in April after the mayor, a moderate Democrat, appeared to align himself with President Trump in the months following his notorious charges.
The mayor has repeatedly denied all wrongdoing.
