[FoxNews] FBI probe comes months after agency seized mayor's electronic devices.
Federal authorities are investigating New York City Mayor Eric Adams' use of a private email addresses and how records from seven trips he made to China have disappeared.
The New York Post, citing a source close to the probe, said the prominent NYC mayor used three private email addresses to arrange his dealings in China on his seven trips to the foreign country.
At least one of the trips, per the outlet, was partly funded by the Chinese Communist Party.
The private email accounts cannot be traced on New York City government servers, meaning that key details, such as who paid for the trips and with whom he met, remain concealed.
The outlet said Adams and one of his top aides and director of Asian Affairs since he took office in 2022, Winnie Greco, used the nonofficial emails between 2014 and 2021, when he was Brooklyn Borough president.
It was immediately unclear what the federal government is seeking to find from Adams’ China trips, the Post said.
The FBI declined to comment on the investigation.
Last year, federal investigators quietly seized the mayor's cellphones and an iPad as he was leaving an event in Manhattan.
The initial probe is believed to be focused, at least in part, on whether the Adams campaign conspired with the Turkish government to receive illegal campaign contributions from foreign sources, funneled through straw donors, according to a warrant reported on by the New York Times.
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