Comptroller Urges Cancellation of $20M Contract Extension for Indicted Eric Adams Campaign Fundraiser

City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging the administration of Mayor Eric Adams to nix a contract extension that would steer nearly $20 million to a hotel owner who was indicted last month in an alleged corruption scheme involving one of her government-funded Queens properties.

The hotel owner, Weihong Hu, has held fundraisers for Adams’ 2021 election and current reelection campaigns, including two at that hotel, the former Wyndham Garden in Fresh Meadows.

In a letter sent Monday to the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice and obtained by THE CITY and The Guardian US, Lander’s office cited “potential vendor corruption and fraud” and other issues as it called for the rejection of a pending three-year deal to continue housing formerly incarcerated individuals at the hotel.

Last month, the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney brought an indictment against Hu and the CEO of the nonprofit Exodus Transitional Community, alleging that she bribed the executive, Julio Medina, to house inmates served by the nonprofit at two of her hotels.



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