New York City Mayor Eric Adams has raised more than $650,000 in connection to a legal defense fund he launched amid a federal corruption investigation into the Democrat.

The FBI and federal prosecutors are investigating whether the Adams campaign in 2021 unlawfully conspired with the Turkish government to receive contributions, an allegation that came under the spotlight after law enforcement in November raided the Brooklyn residence of Adams’s friend Brianna Suggs, a major fundraiser for him.

“The Eric Adams Legal Defense Trust has drawn strong support in a short amount of time, raising more than $650,000 since it was formed just two months ago,” Vito Pitta, counsel to the Eric Adams Legal Defense Trust, said in a statement.

Employees of New York City are permitted to set up legal defense funds so they may receive assistance for certain expenses and bills, according to the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board. Adams is being represented by the law firm WilmerHale, and the investigation centers on the possibility that the Adams campaign provided kickback benefits to a Brooklyn construction company with ties to Turkey, as well as to officials in Turkey, according to the New York Times.

His legal defense fund is allowed to receive donations of up to $5,000, according to New York law. Its trustee is Peter Aschkenasy, who previously chaired One Brooklyn, a nonprofit group linked to Adams’s former Brooklyn borough president role.

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Meanwhile, in July, Democratic Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted six people and a company for allegedly funneling cash to the mayor’s 2021 campaign in violation of the law, with one of those people indicted being a longtime acquaintance of Adams. Soon after, Bragg indicted Eric Ulrich, Adams’s ex-buildings commissioner, for allegedly taking $150,000 in gifts and cash in exchange for favors.

The legal defense fund for Adams is “necessitated by and intended to defray legal expenses in connection with the inquiries by the office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York related to the operations of the Adams 2021 mayoral campaign committee,” according to a signed affidavit.