Lewis-Martin all of the sudden resigned from her position as chief advisor to Mayor Adams on Sunday.
Investigators with the DA’s workplace have been probing Lewis-Martin since at the least September — after they seized her digital units and raided her residence after she stepped off a flight from Japan at JFK. Federal investigators have been additionally on the airport and served her with a subpoena to testify in a separate matter.
Different metropolis officers and a lobbyist on the journey additionally had their units seized — together with Jesse Hamilton, a former state senator now in command of town’s huge actual property portfolio.
It was unclear Sunday what Lewis-Martin is likely to be charged with, however the indictment is anticipated to be at the least partially associated to a probe into town’s Division of Citywide Administrative Companies’ actual property offers, sources conversant in the matter stated,
The DA has additionally been investigating allegations involving Lewis-Martin’s son, who’s a DJ and a hotelier, based on the New York Occasions, which first reported {that a} grand jury was listening to proof in opposition to Martin.
“As you would say, this has been a good ride; I will use author’s license and say that this has been an amazing ride.”
Adams, a longtime pal and confidant to Lewis-Martin, is himself going through a five-count federal corruption indictment and is anticipated to go to trial in April.
Within the look on the present, Lewis-Martin stated she believes the general public will see “we have not done anything illegal to the magnitude or scale that requires the federal government and the DA’s office to investigate us.”
This remark angered the mayor, the sources stated, because it implied there might need been some prison exercise. One of many sources stated the mayor and Lewis-Martin hadn’t spoken in weeks earlier than to Sunday’s announcement of her resignation.
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