The Influencer Who Bought An American Politician
Arda Sayiner hobnobbed with celebrities and promoted luxury travel destinations. He also may be a key conspirator and witness in the Eric Adams bribery case.
Who is “The Promoter”?
Like the plots of Armando Giovanni’s Veep and The Thick of It, corruption scandals involving New York Mayor Eric Adam’s administration have spiraled into absurdity. Within the past year, more than a dozen city officials and high-ranking employees have either resigned or been fired, had their homes raided by the FBI, or both. City leadership became stretched so thin and so tarnished by alleged impropriety that Adams had to put the chief of the sanitation department, Jessica Tisch, in charge of the NYPD.
At the center of this cloud of ill-repute is Adams, himself. He’s currently under federal indictment over claims that he took over $100,000 in illicit freebies, including first-class airline tickets, stays at opulent hotels, expensive meals, and straw political donations, from Turkish officials and businessmen. Adams allegedly returned the favor by pressuring NYC’s fire department into allowing a newly built Turkish government-ow…
