Brianna Suggs is a prominent fundraiser and close advisor to Mayor Eric Adams. The FBI raided her residence. The news comes amid mounting hostilities between Joe Biden and Mayor Adams, especially since the latter was kicked off of Biden’s campaign leadership team over open differences over border policies.
Neighbors claimed to have heard screams coming from Suggs’ house during the early Thursday morning raid in Brooklyn. As a major contributor to Adams’ political network, Suggs received over $150,000 from the mayor’s campaign.
The New York Post was informed by one of Suggs’ neighbors, “I heard screaming maybe two or three hours ago.” They said, “I heard helicopters (also)…” in addition. The home has boarded up doors.
The precise factors for the raid’s occurrence remain ambiguous; nonetheless, it is certain that this event will exacerbate the existing tensions between the Biden administration and Mayor Adams. Notably, Mayor Adams had a scheduled meeting with the Biden administration in Washington D.C. today; however, the meeting was unexpectedly canceled in response to the aforementioned event.
According to a source knowledgeable about the operation, agents affiliated with the public corruption unit within the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s New York division engaged in communication with Suggs while conducting the examination of her domicile. According to a statement made by an FBI spokesman to the New York Times, law enforcement activities are now being conducted at the residence of Suggs in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn.
According to a story from The New York Times:
In the past two years, Mr. Adams’s re-election campaign has paid Ms. Suggs nearly $100,000 for fund-raising and campaign consulting services via her company, Suggs Solutions, according to city records.
His first mayoral campaign paid her more than $50,000.
Ms. Suggs has also registered as a lobbyist. State records indicate that a real estate concern hired Ms. Suggs, via an intermediary, to lobby the mayor’s office and the New York City Council on its behalf in 2022.
Ms. Suggs worked as an aide to Mr. Adams when he was Brooklyn borough president, and Ingrid Lewis-Martin — currently the mayor’s top adviser — was his deputy.
Ms. Suggs is also deeply embedded in outside efforts to advance the mayor’s agenda. A key ally’s political action committee, Striving for a Better New York, that promised to support state candidates aligned with Mr. Adams on policy matters, has paid Ms. Suggs roughly $100,000.
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