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Details of the nearly $14,000 in total donations from KSK Construction Group employees came to light a day after it emerged thefunneled to Adams’ 2021 mayoral campaign as part of an alleged kickback scheme involving the Williamsburg, Brooklyn-based company and Turkish government. A straw donor is a person or company which illegally makes a donation with someone else’s money but using their own name to hide its source.
The company’s owner, Erden Arkan, coughed up slightly more with his contribution coming in at $1,500, the filings show.