Former Colleague of NYC Mayor Pleads Guilty to Scheme to Make Illegal Donations to Mayor’s Campaign

Published on February 5, 2024

A former colleague of New York City mayor Eric Adams has accepted a plea deal to admit guilt in a scheme to organize illegal donations to Mr. Adams’s 2021 campaign. Dwayne Montgomery, who served on the New York City Police Department with Mr. Adams, was one of six people that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged in July in a scheme to facilitate illegal campaign donations to the Adams campaign. Mr. Montgomery, the other defendants, and a management company called EcoSafety Consultants Inc., were all charged with a fifth-degree conspiracy charge, and third-degree attempted grand larceny. Mr. Montgomery was further charged on multiple first-degree counts of offering false instruments for campaign donations, and multiple first-degree counts of attempting to offer false instruments....

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