Ingrid Lewis-Martin, the brash consigliere of embattled Mayor Eric Adams, was accused Thursday of trading favors to two New York City hoteliers in exchange for more than $100,000 in bribes — which funded a Porsche for her DJ son and other luxuries, prosecutors said.
The highly-anticipated indictment in Manhattan Supreme Court levels bribery charges against Lewis-Martin, her son Glenn Martin II, hotelier Mayank Dwivedi and real estate investor Raizada Vaid in a staggering swath of alleged corruption that District Attorney Alvin Bragg deemed “naked cronyism.”
Lewis-Martin, 63, allegedly engaged in a years-long scheme to enrich herself and her son by trading favors for the developers – and even joked about raking in graft in texts and phone calls detailed in a court document filed with the indictment.
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