Arthur Aidala, Lewis-Martin’s legal professional, confirmed she’s going to seem in court docket Thursday to be arraigned on the extra costs.
“The District Attorney has refused to provide any details about the charges,” Aidala stated. “Despite a lifetime of service as a law-abiding public servant, Ingrid is being forced to enter court with little information. What she does know is this: she has always served the City with integrity, and she will firmly plead not guilty to every charge.”
The brand new costs come months after Lewis-Martin was first charged in a bribery scheme involving two actual property buyers accused of bribing her and her son in change for the highest Metropolis Corridor adviser securing official favors for them with the Division of Buildings.
“Mayor Adams was not involved in this matter and has not been accused of or implicated in any wrongdoing,” Kayla Mamelak, a spoksewoman for the mayor, stated in response to phrase of Lewis-Martin’s forthcoming extra costs.
Lewis-Martin resigned from her highly effective submit at Metropolis Corridor simply days earlier than she was indicted. She has pleaded not responsible within the bribery scheme, as have her son and the 2 businessmen.
Lewis-Martin, a longtime shut pal of the mayor who began labored for him within the mid-2000s when he was a state senator, was indicted in December for allegedly utilizing her affect to expedite building tasks on behalf of two enterprise associates, who in flip gave her skilled DJ son, Glen Martin II, $100,000 for a Porsche and pledged to put money into his enterprise ventures.
At a listening to in Lewis-Martin’s bribery case in March, Assistant District Lawyer Kenneth Moore stated a brand new grand jury had been convened to take a look at associated issues. However Moore stated he didn’t anticipate the grand jury could be “finished with anything” in potential associated issues involving Lewis-Martin and her co-defendants for at the very least two months.
Lewis-Martin resigned from her highly effective submit at Metropolis Corridor simply days earlier than she was indicted. She has pleaded not responsible within the bribery scheme, as have her son and the 2 businessmen.
In September, Lewis-Martin had her digital units seized by investigators with the DA’s workplace after touchdown at JFK Airport from a visit to Japan. Additionally on the journey had been Division of Citywide Administrative Providers Deputy Commissioner Jesse Hamilton, a high actual property official for town, and Diana Boutross, a pal to Lewis-Martin who leads a lot of town’s business leasing as an government at Cushman & Wakefield, a agency contracted by town to spearhead this system. Each of their telephones had been seized by investigators, too.
Separate from the bribery scheme ensnaring Lewis-Martin’s son, investigators from Bragg’s workplace have additionally for months been trying into her and different high Adams aides, together with Hamilton, in reference to town authorities’s business leasing packages.
Hamilton, who oversees the business leasing program in his function on the Division of Citywide Administrative Providers, has confronted scrutiny for his work on the company, together with for pushing for Boutross to be the lead government on Cushman & Wakefield’s contract together with his company.
In October, the Metropolis Council convened a listening to to look at Hamilton’s transfer to return on a lease for town’s Division of Getting old and as an alternative give it to 14 Wall Road, a property owned by Alexander Rovt, a billionaire who has donated closely to Adams. Hamilton skipped the listening to.
Initially Revealed: August 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM EDT
