Brooklyn real estate magnate Erden Arkan pleaded guilty on Friday in federal court to funneling thousands of dollars to Mayor ...

It is unclear whether Arkan’s plea will require him to cooperate in the feds’ ongoing corruption investigation into the mayor ...

Erden Arkan, aka "Businessman-5," pled guilty to making 10 straw donations to the Eric Adams 2021 mayoral campaign.

Erden Arkan, a Big Apple real estate mogul who runs the Brooklyn-based KSK Construction Group, pleaded guilty to a single ...

Erden Arkan said he paid his employees to give to the mayoral campaign in consultation with the Turkish government.

Erden Arkan, a Turkish national and businessman named in Mayor Eric Adams’ federal indictment, became the first individual to ...

The Turkish-born construction executive said he knowingly wrote checks for employees who then made donations to the 2021 Eric ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Erden Arkan, left, leaves federal court, Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, in ...

President-elect Donald Trump spoke for six minutes. The judge talked for seven. In the end, the first criminal court ...