2 days ago · Weihong Hu, a hotelier with close ties to Mayor Eric Adams, conspired with two businessmen to steal millions of dollars from a temporary housing program that was designed to help slow the spread ...

2 days ago · Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn on Thursday charged Weihong Hu, a hotel developer who reportedly packaged tens of thousands of dollars in donations for the mayor's campaign, with conspiracy and ...

2 days ago · Weihong Hu met Eric Adams at the Park Plaza Diner in Downtown Brooklyn on May 10, 2021. Credit: Obtained by THE CITY “Through kickbacks and bribes, the defendants…capitalized on the COVID-19 crisis and exploited the Emergency Housing Program by engaging in a corrupt scheme to line their own pockets with millions of dollars intended to …

1 day ago · Weihong Hu is a Chinese American hotel developer. [1] [2] In February 2025, Hu and two codefendants was charged with conspiracy and fraud after allegedly stealing millions from a pandemic housing program. [3] References This article needs additional or more specific categories. Please help out by adding categories to it so ...

2 days ago · Earlier today, at the federal court in Brooklyn, an indictment was unsealed charging Julio Medina, Christopher Dantzler and Weihong Hu with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, honest-services wire fraud, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to violate the Travel Act and the use of a facility of interstate commerce in aid of commercial bribery. This morning, Dantzler …

1 day ago · Weihong Hu, a prominent hotel owner and political fundraiser for Eric Adams, is accused alongside Julio Medina, founder of Exodus Transitional Community, and security firm owner Christopher ...

1 day ago · Photos contained in the indictment show Medina, a former chairperson of the city Board of Correction, allegedly accepting an envelope of cash from Weihong Hu, the Greco associate, who was involved ...

Oct 23, 2024 · Weihong Hu, a Chinese businesswoman and developer behind the Fresh Meadows Hotel under the Mayflower Regional Center, had secured $6 million in guaranteed annual rental income and special favors from Mayor Eric Adams’ administration after making significant contributions to his campaign.

Nov 18, 2024 · The hotel, where the city pays for rooms for use as shelter, is owned by Weihong Hu, a Chinese businesswoman and developer who bundled tens of thousands of dollars of donations to Adams’s 2021 mayoral campaign.

Clifton Park, New York resident Julio Medina, 64, Baldwin resident Christopher Dantzler, 49, and Manhattan resident Weihong Hu, 59, were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, honest ...

1 day ago · Weihong Hu, fundraiser to Mayor Adams, charged with conspiracy, fraud. WABC – NY. Thu, February 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM UTC. Hu and two codefendants defrauded the COVID-era Emergency Housing Program ...

1 day ago · Federal prosecutors say 59-year-old Weihong Hu, who operated a pair of hotels in Queens, and her co-defendants got the funds from an emergency transitional housing program. The program was meant ...

May 24, 2024 · Two years after they first met in the backroom of a diner in downtown Brooklyn, Weihong Hu invited Adams to feast once again. On the evening of 9 June 2023, Hu hosted a fundraiser for her candidate, now running for re-election in 2025, in the common space of her new home, a 92-story glass skyscraper in Hudson Yards where she had recently ...

Nov 19, 2024 · The hotel is owned by Weihong Hu, a Chinese hotel developer who allegedly packaged tens of thousands of donations for Adams’ mayoral campaigns, according to the outlet. Hu, who has not been...

May 23, 2024 · Weihong Hu poured money into Adams’ campaigns and enlisted two of the mayor’s close associates to work with her companies. She then landed business deals and favorable decisions from the Adams administration, an investigation by THE CITY, The Guardian US, and Documented reveals.

Nov 18, 2024 · Weihong Hu and Mayor Eric Adams. The hotel is owned by Weihong Hu, a Chinese businesswoman and developer who bundled tens of thousands of dollars of donations to Adams’s 2021 mayoral campaign.

1 day ago · More controversy surrounding New York Mayor Eric Adams. Hotel developer Weihong Hu is one of three people charged in a scheme to steal COVID-relief money in New York intended for emergency housing, reports ABC7. “Through kickbacks and bribes, the defendants Julio Medina, Christopher Dantzler and Weihong Hu capitalized on the Covid-19 crisis and exploited …

May 23, 2024 · Weihong Hu poured money into Adams’s campaigns, hosted the mayor’s top advisor and son at her hotel and retained two of the mayor’s close associates to work with her company. She then landed major contracts and more from the Adams administration, an investigation by THE CITY, The Guardian US, and Documented reveals.

1 day ago · Christopher Dantzler, 49, of Baldwin, Julio Medina, 64, of Clifton Park, and Weihong Hu, 59, of Manhattan, were indicted by a U.S. Eastern District grand jury on five counts including conspiracy ...

Nov 27, 2024 · The probe out of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York is eyeing the pastor, the Rev. Al Cockfield II, and his dealings with the developer, Weihong Hu, the source said.