So now, in addition to the FBI raid on fundraiser Brianna Suggs, and the FBI seizing the Mayor's mobile devices, the FBI has now raided the home of Adams' director of Asian affairs Winnie Greco as well as the former offices of Adams' election campaign.
It is possible that Adams might be the most corrupt New York City Mayor in recent history, and given that recent history includes Rudolph f%$#ing Giuliani, that is a pretty high bar:
FBI agents raided two Bronx homes owned by a top aide to Mayor Eric Adams early Thursday morning, along with the offices of a Queens mall that hosted Adams campaign operations.
THE CITY previously uncovered strong evidence of potentially illegal straw donations tied to the mall.
The aide, Adams’ director of Asian affairs Winnie Greco, was deeply involved in eight separate fundraising events at the New World Mall that generated tens of thousands of dollars for Adams’ 2021 mayoral campaign.
She is on sick leave from her job after having a medical episode during the FBI raid and going to the hospital, according to an Adams administration source. Once her sick leave is over, and if she does not have any unused vacation time, she will then be on unpaid leave and not conducting any governmental business.
Greco is the third person associated with Adams whose home was raided by federal officials in the past four months. In November, the FBI raided the homes of Brianna Suggs, then Adams’ chief fundraiser, and Rana Abbasova, an aide in Adams’ international affairs office.
One New World Mall worker told THE CITY that she was asked by employers to make a $249 donation — and later reimbursed. That would make it a “straw” donation, a criminal violation that has already led to the prosecution of one set of Adams fundraisers by the Manhattan District Attorney, as well as a separate investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s office into another set of donors with links to the Turkish government.………
Greco, who is paid $100,000 a year for her City Hall job, is already being probed by the city’s Department of Investigation in the aftermath of another story by THE CITY detailing allegations of ethical improprieties against her. One business executive alleged to THE CITY that Greco solicited a $10,000 donation for a nonprofit she had founded as a condition for attending an event at Gracie Mansion with Adams honoring the Chinese community. A former Adams campaign volunteer who obtained a city government job with Greco’s help told THE CITY that Greco demanded he supervise renovations at one of her houses for no pay.
A longtime advisor to Adams dating back to his start as Brooklyn borough president a decade ago, Greco has helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for his prior and current mayoral campaigns. Adams’ chief confidant and top political advisor at City Hall, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, once called Greco her “baby sister.”
At this point, I am wondering if Adams will even make it to the next primary, where he will lose, before he is arrested.
Not only does he appear to be deeply corrupt, but it appears to be corruption of the most amazingly chicken-sh%$ sort.
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