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How China Influences Elections in America’s Biggest City

El consulado chino en Manhattan ha movilizado a grupos comunitarios para derrotar a los candidatos que no se alinean con el Estado autoritario.

Reporters across The Times spent months working to understand the ways the Chinese government wields its influence in New York politics.

New York Times reporters witnessed supporters of Mayor Eric Adams handing out cash-filled envelopes. Sometimes, that money went to reporters from Chinese-language outlets.

A campaign volunteer for Mayor Eric Adams of New York was suspended after giving a journalist cash in a potato chip bag.

Dao Yin was charged after a New York Times investigation revealed that he reported receiving campaign contributions from people who said they had not made them.

The Justice Department is pushing to drop corruption charges against Eric Adams in Manhattan while federal authorities in Brooklyn have been investigating his top fund-raisers.

The man is charged with acting as an illegal foreign agent. The move is part of an effort by the authorities to prevent China from influencing American politicians.

The New York City Campaign Finance Board voted to withhold as much as $4.3 million in matching funds from Mayor Eric Adams, as he faces federal corruption charges focused on his fund-raising practices.

Winnie Greco, a top fund-raiser and senior adviser for Mr. Adams, has long had dealings with people and groups connected to China’s communist regime. He kept her close even so.