Winnie Greco, a longtime close associate of Mayor Eric Adams, summoned a reporter across the street after an Adams campaign event and handed over an opened bag of Herr's Sour Cream & Onion ripple chips that contained a small red envelope with $220 in folded money. The reporter initially believed the bag held only chips and attempted to decline the gift. The reporter turned the cash over to an investigator from the Brooklyn U.S. attorney's office. The exchange was described as a failed payoff. The motive for the payment remains unclear and the transaction appeared random and lacking usual discretion.
New York City-based non-profit news organization The City reported Wednesday that a longtime close associate of Mayor Eric Adams handed one of its reporters a wad of cash stuffed inside an opened bag of Herr's Sour Cream & Onion ripple potato chips, immediately following an Adams campaign event. The associate, an already notorious advisor named Winnie Greco, summoned the reporter to a nearby Whole Foods, thrust the bag of chips into their hands, and then refused its return.
It's not clear what precisely Greco was attempting to purchase with this payoff. The City has reported extensively on the various misdeeds of the Adams administration, but this exchange seems to have happened somewhat randomly, and without the care and discretion a reader of hard-boiled political thrillers might prefer to see from transactions of the sort. Katie Honan, the upstanding reporter, was summoned across the street by a text from Greco, and then handed what at first appeared to be a leftover portion of potato
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