Several former aides to Mayor Eric Adams face criminal allegations and scandalous conduct as the mayor pursues re-election. Manhattan prosecutors indicted former top adviser Ingrid Lewis-Martin in multiple indictments charging she accepted about $75,000 in cash and lavish benefits from individuals in return for official favors. Another ex-aide, Winnie Greco, allegedly attempted to bribe a reporter by slipping cash inside a potato chip bag and was suspended from a volunteer campaign role. Both Lewis-Martin and Greco resigned last year. Opponents Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo criticized the administration for pervasive corruption, arguing it harms New Yorkers and distracts from urgent issues like the affordability crisis.
Mayor Eric Adams finds himself again dealing with scandals involving former members of his administration as he seeks re-election. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell Mayor Eric Adams' leading November general election rivals pounced on the latest round of corruption charges against his former top adviser, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, that came down Thursday, as well as a report that another ex-top aide, Winnie Greco, tried to hand a journalist a cash-stuffed potato chip bag the day before.
In the first instance, Manhattan state prosecutors charged Lewis-Martin, who resigned from Adams' administration last December, in four separate indictments on Aug. 21. She is accused of accepting $75,000 worth of cash and other lavish benefits from several individuals in exchange for a bevy of official favors. Ingrid Lewis-Martin, a former senior aide to Mayor Eric Adams, is escorted by detectives in handcuffs at New York County Criminal Court on Aug. 21, 2025.
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