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A former aide to Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday admitted choreographing an illegal donation scheme aimed at generating matching funds for the mayor’s 2021 campaign, contending he was “instructed” on how to do this by a campaign volunteer.

Mohammed Bahi, who served as one of the mayor’s liaisons to the Muslim community, entered a guilty plea in Manhattan federal court to one count of conspiracy, even after the Trump Justice Department forced the same

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