By JAKE OFFENHARTZ

NEW YORK (AP) — A former aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams pleaded guilty Tuesday to soliciting straw donations in a case tied to separate corruption charges against Adams that the Trump administration ultimately decided to drop.

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Mohamed Bahi, who served as City Hall’s chief liaison to the Muslim community, admitted in federal court that he helped solicit the illegal donations for Adams’ mayoral campaign from employees of a Brooklyn construction company at a December 2020 fundraiser.

“I understood that the Adams campaign would then seek matching funds for those donations,” Bahi told a judge, adding that he knew the employees would be reimbursed and “that it was wrong.”

Bahi, 41, was originally charged in October with witness tampering and destr

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