紐約市長的罪名
起訴書稱，亞當斯接受土耳其的招待始於 2015 年，當時他擔任布魯克林區區長。 那一年，兩次前往土耳其旅行的機票是由那裡的官員或商人支付。
多年來，亞當斯先生享受土耳其航空公司的免費或大幅折扣旅行。2016年，他的目的地包括印度； 2017 年 7 月法國、土耳其、斯里蘭卡和中國； 2018 年和匈牙利。
檢察官表示，市長接受了價值遠超10 萬美元的豪華旅行，大部分是商務艙，這是該航空公司提供的最高級別的座位，其中包括“屢獲殊榮的菜餚、最新的機上娛樂系統和舒適的座椅。
起訴書稱，土耳其官員還為亞當斯先生提供免費或大幅折扣的土耳其豪華套房住宿，這些套房擁有寬敞的臥室、客廳和浴室。
至於非法接受不當競選捐款部分，起訴書描述，土耳其商人因法律禁止向市長競選捐款，找到「稻草捐助者」，以美國公民當人頭，捐款給亞當斯做為2018年競選市長的費用。
後來亞當斯再以這些非法的政治獻金向紐約市政府詐領選舉的配合補助款。依規定每一筆的捐款可以請領2,000美元的配合補助款。
亞當斯違法接受政治獻金的另外一個案例是，有一位建商想捐助10,000 美元，礙於個人捐款有 2,000 美元的限額，於是以員工名義捐款，以便在形式上逃避法令的規定。
檢察官稱，亞當斯在擔任布魯克林區長和紐約市長期間圖利對方，以換取不當的禮物和捐款。兩者之間具有對價關係。
起訴書中描述的最精心設計的好處是，亞當斯利用自己作為可能即將上任的市長的影響力，不顧安全問題，要求消防局快速檢查和批准曼哈頓中城一座新的土耳其領事館大樓。
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Loggerheads is also the name of three small towns in the UK - in Leicestershire, in Lancashire and in Mold, North Wales. As is 'de rigueur' when a town might have some reason to claim to be associated with some phrase or another, each town's residents claim that 'at loggerheads' originated in their home-town.
"Paris in the Fifties""... opening a club. "Nudes are de rigueur, and I knew that I would have to employ them-though how? In most Paris boîtes they just stand 204 ..."
de ri・gueur
［F.］ 礼儀上必要で.
loggerheads Show phonetics
plural noun━━ n. 【動】アカウミガメ; ばか者.
at loggerheads けんかして ((with)).be at loggerheads (with sb) to strongly disagree (with someone):
The Chancellor is at loggerheads with the Prime Minister over public spending.
loggerhead
n. - 笨蛋, 紅海龜, 鐵頭棒
idioms:
- at loggerheads 不和, 相爭
arraign
- [əréin]
[動](他)
1 《法律》〈被告人に〉（公判廷で）（罪状の）認否を問う((for, on ...))
be arraigned on a charge ［charges］ of ...
…罪で罪状認否を求められる.
…罪で罪状認否を求められる.
2 ((文))（一般に）…を糾弾する, 非難する, 責める
arraign a person for a crime
人の犯罪を糾弾する.
人の犯罪を糾弾する.
jobbernowl
(JOB-uh-nowl)
noun
A blockhead.
Etymology
From French jobard (stupid, gullible), from Old French jobe (stupid) + noll (top or crown of the head).]
Usage
"That he pays not the least regard to the requirements of convention marks him out as either a superior soul or a right down jobbernowl." — Soseki Natsume; I Am a Cat; Tuttle Publishing; 2002. (© Wordsmith.org)
The Plight of the Loggerhead Turtle In matters of species preservation, our efforts look as though they’re directed at nature, when in fact they’re really directed at ourselves.
2006 時事英文：at loggerheads
loggerhead -- an iron instrument with a long handle and a ball at its end used to melt pitch in a fire
idiom: at loggerheads
- Engaged in a dispute: The question of car privileges put Sam and his parents at loggerheads.
例子 Google remains at loggerheads with .../ ... at Loggerheads Over Emissions Plan / EU, China at Loggerheads Over ...
--Wikipedia
The terms go to loggerheads, to be at loggerheads, or to come to loggerheads means to come to blows or to have a strong difference of opinion. According to the Oxford English Dictionary , the origin of this use is obscure. It is suggested that the terms may have originated to describe a conflict wherein the iron loggerhead instruments described above are used as weapons.
---WSJ 例句
Iran and the U.S. seemed at loggerheads, as the two nations have been so often over 28 years of diplomatic silence since the Iranian revolution. Yet the leaders of the U.S. and the Islamic Republic are also eyeing each other from closer than ever before as they try to decide whether to talk directly about Iran's nuclear program.
But this doesn't mean the two countries will eventually talk, and their roller-coaster history of overtures made and spurned is evidence of that. The Iranian government almost immediately dismissed the initial U.S. offer to join talks, calling it a public-relations ploy.
2009
At loggerheads
MeaningIn dispute with.
Origin
'At loggerheads' is of UK origin. The singular 'loggerhead' occurs as a name in several contexts - as a species of turtle, a bird and as a place name. Originally, a loggerhead was none of these but was first used with the meaning of 'a stupid person - a blockhead'. Shakespeare used it that way in Love's Labours Lost, 1588:"Ah you whoreson logger-head, you were borne to doe me shame."A 'logger-head' was literally a 'block-head'. A logger was a thick block of timber which was fastened to a horse's leg to prevent it from running away. In the 17th century, a loggerhead was also recorded as 'an iron instrument with a long handle used for melting pitch and for heating liquids'. It is likely that the use of these tools as weapons was what was being referred to when rivals were first said to be 'at loggerheads'.
The first known use of the phrase in print is in Francis Kirkman's, The English Rogue, 1680:
"They frequently quarrell'd about their Sicilian wenches, and indeed... they seem... to be worth the going to Logger-heads for."The next year saw the printing of The Arraignment, Trial, and Condemnation of Stephen Colledge. In that text, the author makes a clear link between loggerheads and fighting:
So we went to loggerheads together, I think that was the word, or Fisty-cuffs.Incidentally, 'fisticuffs' is another two-word term from around the same date that was later amalgamated into a single word. A cuff was a blow with the open hand. A fisty cuff was a cuff using the fist, i.e. a punch.
Following the departure of the clown William Kemp from The Lord Chamberlain's Men, the troupe of actors that William Shakespeare worked with for most of his writing and acting career, his place was taken by Robert Armin. In 1605, the diminutive clown Armin, a.k.a. 'Snuff, the Clown of the Globe', had a stab at writing and came up with Foole upon Foole. In this piece he makes the first recorded reference to 'fisty cuffs': "The foole... falls at fisty cuffes with him."Loggerheads is also the name of three small towns in the UK - in Leicestershire, in Lancashire and in Mold, North Wales. As is 'de rigueur' when a town might have some reason to claim to be associated with some phrase or another, each town's residents claim that 'at loggerheads' originated in their home-town. Alas, despite the early citations referring to 'going to' loggerheads, this isn't the case. The towns were named after the term, not the other way about. Nevertheless, the use of 'loggerheads' as a place name has been a boon to stand-up comedians of the 'take my wife...' fraternity. They have been trotting out this classic for years:
'I'm going on holiday - a fortnight at Loggerheads with the wife'.See other phrases and sayings from Shakespeare.
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