The Trump administration appears likely to succeed in having federal corruption charges dropped against Mayor Eric Adams in Manhattan.

特朗普政府似乎有可能成功促使关于埃里克·亚当斯市长腐败的联邦指控在曼哈顿被撤销。

But in Brooklyn, a separate group of prosecutors has been conducting a long-running investigation involving Mr. Adams’s most prominent fund-raiser — and at one point searched her homes and office for evidence of a possible Chinese government scheme to influence Mr. Adams’s election, according to a copy of a search warrant, portions of which were read to The New York Times.

然而在布鲁克林，另一组检察官一直在开展一项长期调查，涉及亚当斯最知名的一位筹款人。根据一份搜查令的副本，检察官一度搜查了她的住宅和办公室，以寻找可能存在的中国政府企图影响亚当斯竞选的证据，相关人将该搜查令的部分内容读给了《纽约时报》。

Mr. Adams has known the fund-raiser, Winnie Greco, for more than a decade, and he appointed her to be his Asian affairs adviser after he became mayor in 2022. She has been a close collaborator with people and groups linked to the Chinese government over the years, and she has showed a willingness to steer politicians toward pro-Beijing narratives, The Times reported in October.

亚当斯认识这位筹款人郑祺蓉(Winnie Greco)已有十多年，2022年当选市长后，他任命她为自己的亚洲事务顾问。《纽约时报》去年10月报道称，多年来，郑祺蓉一直与和中国政府有联系的个人及团体密切合作，并且她表现出愿意引导政界人士去宣扬亲北京的言论倾向。

The searches of her homes in the Bronx and office in Queens occurred early last year and were overseen by prosecutors from the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York. The agents conducting the searches were also seeking evidence of solicitation of illegal contributions from foreign nationals, wire fraud and conspiracy, the warrant said.

对她位于布朗克斯的住宅和皇后区办公室的搜查发生在去年年初，由纽约东区联邦检察官办公室的检察官监督进行。搜查令显示，执行搜查的特工还在寻找外国公民非法捐款、电信诈骗和共谋的证据。

On the day Ms. Greco’s homes were searched, and as part of the same investigation, agents also searched the mansion of another prominent fund-raiser for the Adams campaign, Lian Wu Shao, on Long Island, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The search of Mr. Shao’s home has not been previously reported.

据两位知情人士透露，在搜查郑祺蓉住宅的当天，作为同一调查的一部分，特工们还搜查了亚当斯竞选团队另一位知名筹款人邵连武（音）位于长岛的豪宅。邵宅遭搜查一事此前未见报道。

A wealthy Chinese businessman, Mr. Shao is the operator of the New World Mall in Flushing, Queens, which housed Ms. Greco’s office. Records show that hundreds of donors associated with his companies boosted Mr. Adams’s 2021 campaign.

邵连武是一位富有的华裔商人，经营着位于皇后区法拉盛的新世界商城，郑祺蓉的办公室就设在那里。记录显示，与他公司有关的数百名捐赠者为亚当斯的2021年竞选活动提供了助力。

Neither Ms. Greco nor Mr. Shao has been accused of wrongdoing, and it is possible the investigation could conclude without any charges being brought.

郑邵二人都未被指控有不当行为，而且此次调查也有可能在不提出任何指控的情况下结束。

A spokesman for Mr. Adams’s 2025 campaign, Todd Shapiro, said in a statement that both the mayor and his campaign “have always followed the law, and that is why neither he nor the campaign has been accused of any wrongdoing in this case.”

亚当斯的2025年竞选活动发言人托德·夏皮罗在一份声明中表示，市长本人及其竞选团队“一直都遵守法律，这就是为什么他本人和竞选团队在此案中都没有被指控有任何不当行为”。

Ms. Greco, through her lawyer, declined to comment. Mr. Shao did not respond to several requests for comment made over several days.

郑祺蓉通过她的律师拒绝了置评请求。本报几天内多次向邵连武发出置评请求，均未获回应。

布鲁克林的纽约东区检察官办公室重点关注非法中国影响力行动相关的案件。

The inquiry continued after Mr. Adams was indicted following an investigation by the F.B.I. and prosecutors from the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan. He was charged with conspiracy, fraud, bribery and soliciting illegal foreign campaign contributions from Turkish nationals.

亚当斯在联邦调查局以及位于曼哈顿的纽约南区联邦检察官办公室的调查后遭到起诉，此后布鲁克林方面的调查仍在继续。他被指控犯有共谋、欺诈、受贿以及向土耳其公民募集非法外国竞选捐款等罪行。

Last month the Justice Department asked a judge in Manhattan to dismiss those charges, saying they were interfering with Mr. Adams’s ability to aid in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. The move led several prosecutors, including the interim U.S. attorney in Manhattan, to resign in protest.

上个月，司法部要求曼哈顿的一名法官撤销这些指控，称指控干扰了亚当斯协助特朗普政府开展移民打击行动的能力。这一举动导致包括曼哈顿临时联邦检察官在内的几名检察官辞职以示抗议。

There is no indication that Mr. Adams is a target of the investigation in Brooklyn into Chinese influence or that Eastern District prosecutors believe he played any role in a criminal scheme.

没有迹象表明亚当斯是布鲁克林方面关于中国影响力调查的目标，也没有迹象表明纽约东区的检察官认为他在任何犯罪阴谋中扮演了角色。

Even so, given the push to drop the charges against Mr. Adams in the neighboring district, those prosecutors may be forced to navigate fraught terrain if they try to bring a case that touches in any way on the mayor or his campaign, according to interviews with three former Eastern District prosecutors.

即便如此，据对三名前纽约东区检察官的采访，鉴于邻区推动撤销对亚当斯的指控，若布鲁克林的检察官试图就任何与市长或其竞选团队有关的案件提起检控，他们可能会陷入尴尬境地。

Mr. Adams’s relationship with Ms. Greco dates at least to 2014, when, as Brooklyn borough president, he named her an honorary ambassador to Brooklyn’s Chinese community.

亚当斯与郑祺蓉的关系至少可以追溯到2014年，当时他担任布鲁克林区长，任命她为布鲁克林华人社区的荣誉大使。

She accompanied Mr. Adams on at least two of his six trips he made to China while he was borough president, and records show she requested dozens of meetings with him on behalf of Chinese businessmen and government officials.

在他担任区长期间的六次访华行程中，至少有两次由郑祺蓉陪同前往。记录显示，她曾代表中国商人和政府官员向他提出数十次会面请求。

2022年2月，亚当斯市长的主要捐款人邵连武和儿子威廉出席在格雷西大厦举行的春节活动。邵是照片正中左脸被手机遮挡者。

In April 2018, Ms. Greco held the first fund-raiser for Mr. Adams’s mayoral campaign, a dinner event with 500 guests at the Royal Queen restaurant in Mr. Shao’s New World Mall in Flushing, Queens, that netted $64,000 — and qualified Mr. Adams’s campaign for an additional $100,000 under the city’s generous matching-funds program.

2018年4月，郑祺蓉首次为亚当斯的市长竞选筹款，在邵连武位于皇后区法拉盛新世界商城的皇后大酒楼办了一场有500名宾客参加的晚宴，筹得6.4万美元。根据该市慷慨的配比资金计划，亚当斯的竞选活动因此有资格额外获得10万美元。

In the years that followed, she organized at least nine additional events at the same restaurant, along with others at different venues that helped raise at least $1.6 million for Mr. Adams’s 2021 campaign, a Times analysis shows.

《纽约时报》的分析显示，随后几年里，她至少又在同一家餐厅组织了九场活动，还在其他不同地点举办了一些活动，为亚当斯2021年的竞选活动至少筹集了160万美元。

He brought her into his administration when he became mayor in 2022, and, while working in City Hall, she scheduled scores of meetings with people and groups with connections to Beijing, including at least a dozen dinners and events with one of the top Chinese government officials in the United States, the consul general in New York.

2022年亚当斯成为市长后将她纳入了自己的政府团队。在市政厅工作期间，她安排亚当斯与众多和北京有联系的个人及团体会面，其中包括至少12次与中国驻美国高级官员之一、中国驻纽约总领事的晚宴和活动。

On Feb. 29, 2024, her homes were searched by investigators from the Eastern District, an office that has focused in part on bringing cases targeting Chinese transnational repression and influence operations.

2024年2月29日，纽约东区的调查人员搜查了她的住宅。纽约东区检察官办公室的工作重点之一就是处理针对中国跨国镇压和影响力行动的案件。

On the same day, they also searched Mr. Shao’s mansion and his mall, where Ms. Greco kept a campaign office.

同一天，他们还搜查了邵连武的大宅以及他的商城，郑祺蓉在商城里保留了一个竞选办公室。

邵连武的儿子威廉·邵（坐在最左侧）是亚当斯的亚洲事务顾问委员会成员，2024年初，联邦探员对邵的长岛大宅进行了搜查。

Mr. Shao was another central figure in the fund-raising efforts that helped elect Mr. Adams as mayor.

邵是帮助亚当斯当选市长的筹款活动中的另一位核心人物。

More than 100 cashiers, waiters, and other low-wage workers at his mall gave Mr. Adams $249 apiece, records show, even though many of them were not registered to vote. The donations qualified Mr. Adams’s campaign to receive more than $200,000, most of it from the city’s matching funds program.

记录显示，在邵的商城里工作的100多名收银员、服务员和其他低薪员工每人向亚当斯捐赠了249美元，尽管他们中的许多人并未登记成为选民。这些捐款使亚当斯的竞选活动有资格获得超过20万美元的资金，其中大部分来自该市的配比资金计划。

On Aug. 8, 2021, Mr. Shao held a fund-raiser at his home in Old Brookville, N.Y., that generated 231 donations and raised $55,000 for Mr. Adams, qualifying him for an additional $364,000 in matching funds. Both Mr. Adams and Ms. Greco were present.

2021年8月8日，邵连武在纽约州老布鲁克维尔的家中举办了一场筹款活动，收到231笔捐款，为亚当斯筹得5.5万美元，使他有资格再获得36.4万美元的配比资金。亚当斯和郑祺蓉都出席了该活动。

Four donors listed in city filings as attendees by Mr. Adams’s campaign told The Times they did not go to the event.

在亚当斯竞选团队提呈纽约市的报备文件中列为该活动出席者的四名捐赠者告诉《纽约时报》，他们并未参加该活动。

Previous reporting by the nonprofit news organization The City and others has documented other irregularities with donations Mr. Shao helped raise. City auditors cited the irregularities in a report issued in August, and the Campaign Finance Board denied the mayor millions of dollars in public matching funds in December — dealing a huge blow to his re-election efforts.

非营利新闻机构“The City”及其他媒体此前的报道记录了邵连武协助筹集的捐款存在的其他违规情况。市政审计员在8月发布的一份报告中提及了这些违规行为，12月，竞选财务委员会拒绝向市长提供数百万美元的公共配比资金，这给他的连任竞选造成了巨大打击。

In December 2021, after Mr. Adams had won the mayoral election, Mr. Shao stood next to him at a victory party at the Royal Queen restaurant.

2021年12月，亚当斯赢得市长竞选后，邵连武在皇后大酒楼举行的庆功宴上站在他身旁。

邵连武与他人一同创办了新世界商城和亚洲超市Jmart。联邦调查人员去年搜查了该商城，以寻找外国捐款相关的证据。

The event raised more than $400,000 for Mr. Adams’s transition committee, multiple Chinese-language newspapers reported.

多家中文报纸报道称，该活动为亚当斯的过渡委员会筹集了超过40万美元。

Besides overseeing the investigations involving Mr. Shao and Ms. Greco, the Eastern District also recently indicted a businesswoman, Weihong Hu, whose connections to Mr. Adams and his allies, including Ms. Greco, also run deep.

除了涉及郑邵二人的调查外，纽约东区检察官办公室最近还起诉了女商人胡卫红（音），她与亚当斯及其盟友（包括郑祺蓉）的关系也很深厚。

Ms. Hu was charged last month with conspiring with two businessmen to steal millions of dollars from a taxpayer-funded program that placed incarcerated people in hotels she owned. During that period, Ms. Greco stayed at one of those hotels for eight months.

上个月，胡卫红被指控与两名商人合谋，从一个由纳税人出资的项目中窃取数百万美元，该项目将服刑人员安置在她所拥有的酒店里。在此期间，郑祺蓉在其中一家酒店住了八个月。

Ms. Hu was also a prolific fund-raiser for Mr. Adams. She held at least two events to raise money for his 2021 mayoral campaign. One of those occurred on June 4 of that year at Ms. Hu’s hotel in Fresh Meadows, Queens, The City reported. The day after the fund-raiser, Mr. Adams disclosed receiving 17 checks worth $2,000 each from donors with Chinese surnames, including a former tenant of Ms. Hu’s and a worker at one of her hotels.

胡卫红也为亚当斯举办了许多筹款活动。她至少举办了两场活动，为他2021年的市长竞选筹款。据“The City”报道，其中一场是在当年的6月4日，地点在胡卫红位于皇后区弗莱辛梅多斯的酒店。筹款活动的第二天，亚当斯披露收到17张支票，每张金额为2000美元，来自有华人姓氏的捐赠者，其中包括胡卫红的一位前房客和她名下一家酒店的一名员工。

More recently, at a fund-raiser organized by Ms. Hu in 2023 at her Hudson Yards apartment, the campaign netted $87,638, one of its biggest single-day hauls. Both Mr. Adams and Ms. Greco attended the event. Some donors who donated that day later told The City and other outlets that they were reimbursed for the donations made in their names — an apparent violation of the law.

更近的一次筹款活动是2023年胡卫红在她位于哈德逊城市广场的公寓里组织的，竞选团队筹得87638美元，是竞选团队单日筹款数额最多的活动之一。亚当斯和郑祺蓉都参加了该活动。一些当天捐款的捐赠者后来告诉“The City”和其他媒体，他们以自己名义所做的捐款得到了报销，这显然违反了法律。

2021年市长竞选期间，亚当斯出席在邵连武的皇后区法拉盛新世界商城举行的集会。戴着绿色口罩的邵连武站在亚当斯身后。

The indictment of Ms. Hu does not mention her fund-raising activities.

对胡卫红的起诉书中并未提及她的筹款活动。