Six New York City contractors were charged in Manhattan Friday with funneling straw donations to Eric Adams’ 2021 campaign for mayor, prosecutors said. The Manhattan district attorney unsealed indictments accusing Dwayne Montgomery, Shamsuddin Riza, Millicent Redick, Ronald Peek, Yahya Mushtaq, Shahid Mushtaq, and a Queens-based site safety management company they own, Ecosafety Consultants .
Six New Yorkers were charged Friday in an apparent plot to divert tens of thousands of dollars in public funds to then-Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams' mayoral campaign.