{"id":254995,"date":"2025-09-26T01:45:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T01:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/254995\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T01:45:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T01:45:24","slug":"curtis-sliwa-claims-hes-being-offered-bribes-to-leave-nyc-mayoral-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/254995\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtis Sliwa claims he&#8217;s being offered bribes to leave NYC mayoral race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOP candidate Curtis Sliwa claimed deep-pocked donors have been trying to \u201cbribe\u201d him to drop out of the New York City mayoral race \u2013 but his message to them Thursday was: \u201cStop calling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/24\/us-news\/nyc-gop-candidate-curtis-sliwa-drops-guardian-angels-gear-in-scathing-ad-against-election-rivals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian Angels founder insisted supporters <\/a>of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo were behind lucrative job offers as the crowded race to lead City Hall took another bizarre turn with Election Day about a month away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no price that can get me out of this race, no amount of money, no bribe, and again, if anybody comes forward on behalf of Andrew Cuomo or anybody else, it will be recorded, and it will be brought to the proper authorities,\u201d Sliwa said during a press conference.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37214286\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/curtis-sliwa-founder-ceo-guardian-111947509.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis Sliwa \" class=\"wp-image-37214286\"  \/>Curtis Sliwa claims he\u2019s been offered bribes, but won\u2019t accept them. Michael Brochstein\/ZUMA \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>He said he\u2019s been told by suitors there are \u201cmillions of dollars\u201d he could collect for a security job either internationally or in the tristate region.<\/p>\n<p>Sliwa, Cuomo, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani and Mayor Eric Adams are all still in the race, but there\u2019s been a push for Adams and Sliwa to drop out because polls show Cuomo has the best shot at <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/19\/us-news\/eric-adams-praises-ny-dem-boss-for-refusing-to-endorse-zohran-mamdani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stopping front running socialist<\/a> from taking City Hall. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sliwa said he\u2019s received seven phone calls \u2014 as recently as Wednesday \u2013 pleading with him to set aisde in exchange for a flashy job.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>He said he\u2019s swiftly rejected each alleged\u00a0offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said you can use the money for your program for Guardian Angels or your wife\u2019s animal program,\u201d Sliwa told The Post in an interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can be the security director and make a few million dollars each year but you would have to drop out.\u00a0It sounds very unethical; it could be bribery, and I said I think you should stop calling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.66699219;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37214289\" width=\"394\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/250923-former-new-york-gov-111980681.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Cuomo \" class=\"wp-image-37214289\"  \/>Andrew Cuomo denied Sliwa\u2019s claims.  J.C. Rice<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo\u2019s campaign strongly rejected Sliwa\u2019s insinuations with a spokesperson calling him a \u201cliar\u201d and \u201cfraudster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis campaign actually tried to get us to join his stunt lawsuit against WABC,\u201d said Rich Azzopardi. \u201cThis is more of the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor, in a Bloomberg interview earlier Thursday, said Sliwa\u2019s accusations are \u201call malarkey\u201d because he refuses to name names.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to take Sliwa with a grain of salt,\u201d Cuomo added. \u201cHe is a known con-man.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Adams also accused Sliwa of peddling nonsense and said he hasn\u2019t been offered any bribes to exit the race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen, the only fact about Curtis Sliwa is that Curtis Sliwa is a liar,\u201d said Adams, who was facing corruption charges before they were dropped out by the Trump administration. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speculation raged earlier this month that President Trump was floating a spot in the administration for Adams if he were willing to leave the race, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/11\/us-news\/eric-adams-job-prospects-in-trump-admin-all-but-dead-as-nyc-mayoral-race-nears-sources-say-its-a-mess\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">but those job prospects were all but dead now.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Insiders have told The Post the possible job fizzled when it became clear Sliwa wouldn\u2019t drop out of the race either.  <\/p>\n<p>While Adams has not officially left the race, he hasn\u2019t held a campaign event in about a week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting by Matthew Fischetti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GOP candidate Curtis Sliwa claimed deep-pocked donors have been trying to \u201cbribe\u201d him to drop out of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":254996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5340,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-254995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-curtis-sliwa","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-us-news","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115268073847853362","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}