Ingrid Lewis-Martin informed investigators she was harmless and the Division of Correction would “take care” of her after her arrest final month, in response to court docket filings from final month.
“Corrections will take care of me,” Lewis-Martin informed investigators throughout her arrest processing, in response to prosecutors. “I’ve been good to them.”
“I’m not afraid. I know what I did and didn’t do,” she added, in response to a submitting, which didn’t clarify the context wherein she spoke. “This is wrong. I have God and faith. I’ll tell the judge myself — I’m not guilty.”
Lewis-Martin, former chief adviser to the mayor, was indicted in Manhattan Felony Courtroom in December on costs she orchestrated a $100,000 bribery scheme wherein she sped up development permits for 2 actual property businessmen in trade for $100,000 in money and checks to be spent on a Porsche and guarantees to put money into her son’s enterprise ventures.
Lewis-Martin’s son, Glenn Martin II, overheard her speaking to investigators and informed her to “cállate la boca,” or shut your mouth, in response to a separate submitting.
Prosecutors intend to make use of the statements as trial proof, Assistant District Legal professional Man Tardanico wrote in a letter to Arthur Aidala, Lewis-Martin’s lawyer, on Dec. 30.
Neither Aidala nor Michael Cibella, an lawyer for Martin II, instantly responded to a request for remark.
Lewis-Martin additionally apologized to her son, in addition to to Raizada Vaid and Mayank Dwivedi, the true property moguls, as she turned herself in.
“I’m sorry you’re both there because of me, because of who I am,” Lewis-Martin mentioned, in response to the filings, which had been first reported by Politico.
The indictment got here after months of investigation into the previous prime Adams official. In September, investigators with the Manhattan district lawyer’s workplace seized her telephones and searched her Brooklyn dwelling proper after she returned to JFK Airport from a visit to Japan.
Additionally on the airport, federal brokers additionally served her with a grand jury subpoena that required her testimony and paperwork within the probe that led to Adams’ indictment.
After being offered with the search warrant by the DA’s investigators, Lewis-Martin mentioned: “So you’re the ones that have been listening to my phone. This is crazy. Who am I bribing? What is money laundering? Check my bank records.”
Lewis-Martin additionally acknowledged that she would nonetheless be “going to the mayor’s arraignment,” in response to the filings, although including, “I don’t know how I’m going to get there.”
The mayor’s arraignment on corruption costs occurred the identical day her telephones had been seized.
She additionally apologized to her journey companions who, like her, had their telephones seized, together with Cushman & Wakefield govt Diana Boutross and Jesse Hamilton, town’s prime actual property official.
“They’re only looking into you because of me and the mayor,” Lewis-Martin mentioned, in response to a submitting.
As investigators carried out a search warrant on the dwelling of Raizada “Pinky” Vaid, the businessman mentioned to his spouse that this was about “the woman and the mayor.”
Vaid additionally informed an investigator his father used to inform him that “whenever you shake hands with a politician, it will cost you money,” in response to a submitting.
Initially Revealed: January 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM EST
