Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Mayor Adams’ lately resigned chief advisor, and her grownup son surrendered at Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg’s workplace Thursday morning forward of their anticipated arraignment on bribery expenses.
Lewis-Martin and her son, Glenn Martin II, arrived at Bragg’s workplace in downtown Manhattan round 7:30 a.m.
Lewis-Martin smiled and exchanged some fast phrases with officers assigned to the DA’s workplace whereas her son stayed quiet earlier than they each walked inside. They’re anticipated to be arraigned Thursday afternoon.
Lewis-Martin and her son, Glenn Martin II (pictured), arrived at Bragg’s workplace in downtown Manhattan round 7:30 a.m.. (Barry Williams/ New York Every day Information)
They’ll face expenses alongside two businessmen, who allegedly gave a $100,000 mortgage to Lewis-Martin’s son so he may purchase a Porsche after Lewis-Martin helped them with a metropolis Division of Buildings problem that had held up one in all their resort building initiatives, the New York Instances first reported Wednesday.
Lewis-Martin’s departure was the most recent in a string of high-profile resignations from Metropolis Corridor as Adams stays below federal indictment on expenses alleging he solicited bribes and unlawful marketing campaign money, largely from Turkish authorities operatives, in change for political favors.
Beforehand, NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban, First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright, Faculties Chancellor David Banks, Deputy Mayor for Public Security Phil Banks, senior public security adviser Tim Pearson and Asian affairs director Winnie Greco all resigned after being ensnared in a number of separate federal corruption probes.
Ingrid Martin-Lewis arrives on the Manhattan DA’s workplace Thursday. (Barry Williams/ New York Every day Information)
Adams has pleaded not responsible, whereas Lewis-Martin advised reporters Monday — earlier than the specifics of the fees towards her had been identified — that she could be “falsely accused of something.” Moreover the mayor, she’s probably the most high-profile Adams administration official to face legal expenses.
Investigators with the DA’s workplace seized Lewis-Martin’s cellphone and searched her Brooklyn house proper after she returned to JFK Airport from a visit to Japan in September. Federal brokers additionally served her with a subpoena on the airport requiring her to supply grand jury testimony and paperwork within the probe that resulted within the mayor’s indictment.
The DA’s workplace has declined to touch upon particulars of its investigation into Lewis-Martin. Bragg is anticipated to carry a press convention to debate the fees towards Lewis-Martin, her son and the 2 businessmen earlier than her afternoon arraignment.
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Mayor Eric Adams and Ingrid Lewis-Martin throughout a press convention at Metropolis Corridor on Might 28. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Every day Information)
Additionally in September, DA investigators seized units from a number of people who accompanied Lewis-Martin on her Japan journey, together with Jesse Hamilton, a former state senator who now manages the Adams administration’s huge actual property portfolio, and Diana Boutross, a high dealer on the Cushman & Wakefield actual property agency.
The Boutross and Hamilton seizures are believed to be a part of an investigation wanting into doable corruption within the metropolis authorities’s business actual leasing sector. Nobody has been publicly accused of wrongdoing in reference to that inquiry so far.
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