Brianna Suggs is no longer leading Eric Adams’ campaign fundraising operation, he says

Mayor Eric Adams.

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Mayor Eric Adams’ head fundraiser, whose home was raided by the FBI earlier this month in connection with a federal probe into his 2021 campaign, is no longer raising money for his 2025 re-election bid, Hizzoner said Tuesday.

The mayor made the remarks about his now-former fundraiser, 25-year-old Brianna Suggs, during his weekly off-topic press conference. The revelation came not even a month after Adams said he had “full confidence” in Suggs and wanted to keep her on his campaign team. 

“[Brianna] is no longer doing fundraising for the campaign,” Adams told reporters.

A source close to the campaign told amNewYork Metro that Suggs is still with Adams’ re-election operation but is “transitioning” to another role. They declined to elaborate on whether Suggs’ title change was her own decision or the campaign’s and what her new position would be.

When pressed by a reporter about the changeup, Adams also declined to go into detail.

“I’m not gonna go into personal conversations,” the mayor said. “As we’ve said over and over again, this is an active review. And the question was asked, ‘is she still fundraising?’ And I said ‘no’ to that.”

Neither Adams nor Suggs have been accused of any wrongdoing. Adams and his surrogates have repeatedly emphasized they are cooperating with the inquiry.

Suggs’ home was raided by FBI agents on Nov. 2 as part of a broad federal investigation into whether the mayor’s 2021 campaign schemed with the Turkish government to funnel foreign donations into its accounts in exchange for political favors. During the raid, the federal agents questioned Suggs and left her Crown Heights, Brooklyn home with two laptops, three iPhones and a manila folder labeled “Eric Adams” — according to a report from the New York Times.

Following Suggs’ home being searched, Adams had two of his phones and his iPad seized by federal…