A Brooklyn man has admitted to dealing large quantities of cocaine that he intended to have delivered to buyers in the Hamptons during the busy summer months. Michael Khodorkovskiy pleaded guilty on April 21 at Suffolk County court to second-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance with intent to distribute. “Our East End is not a dumping ground for dangerous narcotics from New York City,” said Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney said. “This guilty plea demonstrates our commitment to disrupting the flow of dangerous narcotics anywhere into Suffolk County.”Michael Khodorkovskiy (SCDA)
Prosecutors said the 44-year-old man sold high quantities of cocaine to an undercover police officer near his residence in Brooklyn while believing the drugs were going to be sold in Suffolk County between July 2023 and August 2024. He also traveled to East Hampton and sold cocaine to another undercover police officer believing it was going to be redistributed in East Hampton and Montauk with the help of his codefendant, 39-year-old Alexander Dyatchin of East Hampton, whose case is pending, according to investigators. When Khodorkovskiy was arrested, authorities said that he had a half a kilo of cocaine, $38,550 in cash, 39 gold coins worth $100,000, $395,055 in his bank accounts, and a Mercedes Benz with a hidden compartment filled with cocaine and MDMA. Khodorkovskiy faces up to 10 years in prison and five years of post-release supervision when he is sentenced on May 29 by Judge John B. Collins, who ordered the defendant to forfeit $572,353. His attorney was not immediately available for comment.
During his weekly “off-topic” news conference on April 22, Hizzoner claimed that the speaker’s hidden motivation for butting heads with his administration on a range of issues over the past three years was to mount a run against him. Those issues include the mayor’s wide-ranging funding cuts, council legislation to boost eligibility for the city’s housing voucher program, and the balance of power in City Hall.
Most recently, the two Adamses at City Hall (who have no relation) have clashed over First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro’s executive order allowing federal immigration authorities back onto Rikers Island for the first time in a decade. The council sued last week to block the move, prompting a state judge to grant it a temporary restraining order that bars federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement from setting up shop there at least until Friday.
“This is not the first time the speaker has been hostile to the things we want to do,” the mayor said. “I mean, we now learned why she was trying to block everything I do.”
City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams at a mayoral forum on April 3, 2025.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
“The mayor says a lot of things that are not true,” Jones said in a statement. “Anyone can see that Speaker Adrienne Adams was not planning to run for mayor, until Eric Adams embarrassed and undermined New York City by trying to hand City Hall over to President Trump. Unlike our current mayor, Speaker Adams isn’t auditioning for a job on the Trump reality show.”
Speaker’s late bid for mayor
The mayor’s implication that Speaker Adams has long used an adversarial stance toward his policies to launch her own bid for his office stands in sharp contrast to her past statements and actions.
Speaker Adams, who is term-limited from running for another term in the City Council, had shown little to no interest in running for mayor after spending the past three years leading the city’s legislature; on many occasions, she told reporters that she had no plans to do so.
Even more notably, the speaker only entered the mayor’s race after being pushed to run by other Democratic pols and union leaders concerned about the mayor’s alleged dealings with the Trump administration and as a backlash against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo — the front-runner in the June 24 Democratic primary.
Speaker Adams also entered the mayor’s race quite late, on March 6 — a decision that has hampered her ability to qualify for public matching funds as quickly as other candidates.
The mayor made the comments to illustrate that despite their past battles, he and the speaker have been able to agree on a city budget deal over each of the past three years. The two sides must pass a spending plan for the coming fiscal year by a June 30 deadline.
“The fact that two electeds lost their seats (on the budget committee) because they didn’t endorse the candidate, that’s a real issue,” the mayor said. “We’re in the middle of negotiations. We can’t use our authority as an elected to in any way benefit ourselves.”
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